Adobe says your iPhone isn’t Flashy enough, proposes fix

Miss watching hours of random embedded videos on your iPhone? Frustrated by interactive sites that show up blank in Mobile Safari? Well, you can thank Adobe: they’re bent on bringing Flash to the iPhone, come hell (read: Steve Jobs’s wrath) or high water. So says CEO Shantanu Narayen:

“Flash is synonymous with the Internet and, frankly, anybody who wants to browse the Web and experience the Web’s glory really needs Flash support”

[…]

We’ve evaluated the SDK, we can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves and we think it benefits our joint customers.”

Well, that’s great, Shantanu, but have you wondered exactly what Apple might think about that? Jobs said earlier this month that there were technical and performance issues with Flash on the iPhone. Some have contended that the technical hurdles are not an issue, and that the sticking point between the two tech titans rather comes down to politics.

But Adobe doesn’t apparently see this as an issue, nor is it apparently worried about the SDK restrictions that have hamstrung Sun’s intentions to bring Java to the device. Meanwhile, Apple remains mum on the whole issue.

Category: Software

Posted by Dan Moren on Mar 19 2008, 2:02 PM ET

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