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Fuzzy Logic Flash on iPhone: Adobe realises Apple must agree first
Fuzzy Logic Flash on iPhone: Adobe realises Apple must agree first | Flash on iPhone: Adobe realises Apple must agree first |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 20 March 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Bill Perry, evangelist for mobile and devices at Adobe, noted Adobe’s new statement in his ‘FlashDevices.net’ blog, and made a few comments of his own. Parry said that: “Given the lively discussion around this statement over the past day there have been a lot of assumptions made that are not true and I thought I’d share some facts. Here’s the real info that you should be aware of about Flash on the iPhone:” “1. We've played around with the iPhone SDK since it was introduced and think we can now begin development on delivering Flash Player on the iPhone.” “2. More work needs to be done with Apple however, as the SDK and the license associated with it doesn't enable us to bring the full Flash experience on the iPhone's Safari web brower.” “3. We know lots of iPhone users are wanting Flash. Adobe's goal is to make Flash as ubiquitous as possible, so that means delivering Flash to as many platforms as we can. Much to everyone's surprise we announced on Monday that Flash was coming to the Windows Mobile Platform. So if we can do it with Microsoft, we're certainly hoping that it's not that complex for Flash to make it to the iPhone.” Parry ends by saying: “This is what I can say today and I’m sure you have questions around what version of Flash, when it will be available, how consumers will get it, etc… We don’t have answers for these or other questions but be assured that once we do we’ll share more details. As always post any comments and I’ll answer.” Is Adobe’s backdown enough, or will Apple now seek to delay any introduction of Flash even further, just to punish Adobe? Apple is the kind of company that couldn’t care less if a technology like Flash is on every other device in the world except theirs – they wouldn’t have asked Google and YouTube to re-engineer their entire video platform otherwise, a move that actually made YouTube more available on more mobile devices than ever. Still, whatever happens, if the iPhone ends up with a smaller, faster, more robust and less memory hungry version of Flash, it could see the same happen for all the other Flash clients out there. And that would be a very good thing, as would the iPhone... with Flash!
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