Adobe Flash for iPhone Coming soon

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Saad Hamid on March 19, 2008

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.

http://techalerts.blogspot.com/ Keshav Khera

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”
Linker009

ive been waiting for something like this ever since i first got my itouch! its just kinda sad that apple only released the SDK for apple users, meaning id have to pay over $1000 just to develop for it
ana

finally i was waiting for this great new i hope that it will be soon i can’t wait
jordin

finally. I just got an I touch and have been trying to download flash. Hurry.
Eric

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.

rzach

Totally agree. Congrats, you're the head of apple, but really?

Deflem1

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.
Cevin bopp

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.
http://www.deanthedream.com Dean Stelmach

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?
http://www.apple.com AppleIT

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.
http://Msn.com Lola

I can’t wait till this comes out I’m posting this comment on my iPhone right now!

http://instructables.com Bill

Same here well errr iPod touch. I would love. The closet thing I have is imobile cinema(if u jailboke your phone it’s in cydia). Imobile cinema is great but it only works in 20% if things!!

http://www.fototrix.com Photo Tricks

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).
http://yahoo.com batman

Damn it apple I want flash now!
xxkangaroosterxx

I've been trying to download flash. Now I can finally see videos that aren't from YouTube and whatnot. This is like essential for by iPod.
xxkangaroosterxx

I've been trying to download flash. Now I can finally see videos that aren't from YouTube and whatnot. This is like essential for by iPod.
rzach

Totally agree. Congrats, you're the head of apple, but really?
plowboy america

Hey Jobs, get your head out of your ass and drop the ego B.S.! I love the itouch, but no flash? What a joke. Just think how much more attractive the device would be to the market place.
plowboy america

Hey Jobs, get your head out of your ass and drop the ego B.S.! I love the itouch, but no flash? What a joke. Just think how much more attractive the device would be to the market place.
Taurus

yes, I definitely agree
Taurus

yes, I definitely agree
maria eugenia mondragon

hola por favor ojala me puedan ayudar quiero ver unos videos y me dice que actualice mi adobe flash y no lo puedo hacer yo tengo un ipol 16 gb touch como le ago me dice la pagina safari no puede descargar este archivo de antemano se los agradecere
Firekai

I made the mistake of buying the iPod Touch without fully checking it out (something I do normally do). If I had known that it was a closed device, that you can’t connect it to your PC via USB, that you can’t see it in Windows Explorer, that you can’t drag and drop files on it like a portable drive or USB key and (way more importantly) that it restricts 3rd party apps and Adobe Flash, I would not have spent the money on it.
Fingers crossed that ExoPC Slate is everything that they say it is, cause I’ll be getting one of them instead and dumping the iPod Touch as soon as I can.