The good news for iPhone and iPod Touch owners is that Adobe has started development of a Flash player suitable for use on iPhone and iPod Touch. It was recently announced by Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems and Technologies.
It is good to know that after almost an year of release of the iPhone, someone has finally given consideration to this. Narayen explained that the release of the new iPhone SDK has made it possible to provide necessary tools that are required to create a touch-handset version of the popular Flash media player.
Back in the first week of this month, Steve Jobs announced at the Apple Shareholder meeting that Flash for the iPhone will not be seeing the world soon. That announcement and the one made by Narayen today suggest that Flash for iPhone is a controversial subject for both the companies.
It is expected that Flash for the iPhone will make through into the next firmware release of iPhone i.e. iPhone 2.0. However Apple requires that all third-party software be released as standalone applications rather than as plug-ins which, in the case of Adobe Flash, is kind of a big no-no.
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Oh so that is good news for you DJ. More web applications on your iTouch. I think u should include one more category in your blog “Apple News”
finally i was waiting for this great new i hope that it will be soon i can’t wait
finally. I just got an I touch and have been trying to download flash. Hurry.
Ok, if it does get Flash, that pretty much decides it for me between that and the Storm.
That being said, Steve Jobs continues to shoot himself in the foot with this unwillingness to work with other people. Does he recall the fact that it was this same desire to keep a tight grip on absolutely every aspect of his stuff that put Apple at such a low market share for what, 10 years? Great product, but that guy has got to get over himself.
I hope they get flash on touch. I could watch flash on new grounds then. A lot of people would like the flash application and would buy it for that reason.
I am glad they are trying to do something but they need to hurry up. And a lot of people would download it for there iTouch so I don’t see what the problem is.
Flash is one of the top applications on the web today. It’s a great way to display a link (esp. for email contact) without subjecting it to spam harvesters. It beats the crap out of any other animation or vector graphics app anywhere. Most websites use flash liberally for a number of reasons (it’s all over mine). Why bother giving us a web browser without it?
Just send us some feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback and the development team for your device will respond to your at their ticket response.
I can’t wait till this comes out I’m posting this comment on my iPhone right now!
Not having or allowing Adobe’s Flash come with Iphone/Ipod is like opening a drug store without pain killers. Duh. But I guess a lousy 400mhz CPU is too blame. Heck, 5 years ago I bought a Dell Axim pocket pc with a 633mhz CPU (just enought to decode a Divx on the fly).
So many developers use Flash, even I could offer many web apps for Iphone if Flash was useable.
I refuse to buy an Ipod or Iphone until full Flash is useable and the CPU is higher than a 400mhz (should be at least 633mhz to keep up with 5 year old Pocket PCs).
Damn it apple I want flash now!