March 11th, 2008 
Ntt.cc CNN reported that Steve Jobs has come out saying that Adobe’s Flash technology simply isn’t suitable for the iPhone(Adobe’s Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says).Maybe this is a real bummer for Adobe and many users and developers, because so many games are written for Flash–Flash’s penetration level is so good.
I think that iPhone needs flash support because of all the video sites that use it exclusively now. The internet on the iPhone just feels incomplete without it.In fact Apple endorses that Web-based videos for the iPhone have to be specially formatted to a file type.Is Apple thinking about needing a solid development platform,or Is this just a ploy on Job’s part?
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What would the nature of the ploy be? If you read between the lines of Jobs comments, he talks about (1) not wanting cut-down Flash support – i.e. no Flash 7 as per other phones, or FlashLite, but desktop Flash, and (2) that the performance is not good enough. And if you recall, early on he said ‘No’ to Java, but ‘we’ll see’ about Flash.
My interpretation of this is that
1) Apple DO want Flash on the iPhone, or a straight no would suffice.
2) Flash has been running on the iPhone since before it was released – Jobs most recent comments implied real issues with actual performance, rather than speculative issues.
3) If there is a ploy, it is maybe in being more public about issues that he was hoping would have been solved by now – in particular putting the blame on the performance of Flash (which we know has often lagged behind on OS X generally, especially on PPC machines).
There has been some discussion as to whether the fault is actually down to the power of the iPhone hardware. To which I suggest people run Google Maps or the iTunes in Coverflow view and remind themselves what that hardware is capable of. Now look at how much CPU some Flash banner adverts can consume. Flash lets non-programmers do ‘bad things’.
You should also look into the restrictions on JavaScript behaviour in Safari Mobile. They have not been implemented for fun, or to push developers into using Cocoa, but because we are talking a machine that is a fraction of the power of a laptop.
You should also note that the iPhone SDK forbids the use of interpreted languages – development must be in Cocoa – Apple are not even supporting the VM based languages they support on the Mac such as Ruby, Python and AppleScript, for similar reasons.
Hi,
Have a look at this blog of someone close to the apple and adobe, who has evidence of the iPhone running flash in the apple labs. In fact it seems that its more of a political issue not techincal…
http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/06/is-steve-jobs-lying-about-flash-not-working-on-iphone/
Perhaps hacked flashplayer would come with the iPhone2.0 SDK.
No wonder games, apps and medias would boom if Flash is running on iPhone, but it could break Apple’s market plan. 1st, money earned from iTune store medias will lose alot since flash can contain audio, video and text, graphic. 2nd, iphone flash-api must support multi-touch and accelerate-sensor freely, in that way iphone sdk and most native apps will be cheap.
3rd, Steve Jobs found that plain iphone can tempt hackers to enhance it and hacked iphone can tempt customers to buy it. Apple are not responsible for that.
Nice, Adobe will make flash for iphone! Forget what i said.
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Cool! Peshi ischo
Hm that sounds good but I would like to know more details.
That’s good man, keep it going.
Good story for me but please more details.
Stunning take. From who do you get all your iPhone news?
My hat is off for you.
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