A recent interview with Bloomberg has had Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen reveal that Adobe has teamed up with Apple, to work on bringing flash to Apple's iPhone.Narayen has said that "It's a hard technical challenge [Flash], and that's part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating". CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, said last March that the full version of Flash runs poorly on the iPhone, and Adobe's Flash Lite is not featured enough for use, so he has called on Adobe to produce a third version.
Adobe has a long history of porting technologies to mobile devices, like the previously mentioned Flash Lite, but still has to overcome some unmentioned hurdles to finally get a consumer-ready Flash for the iPhone. Narayen said, three months after the iPhone's App Store launch, that he's "pleased with progress" on Flash, so maybe it's not very far away from release at all.
It is not clear which form Flash for iPhone will come in, be it a separate App or possibly built into a future firmware version, as third party iPhone apps aren't allowed to serve as plugins, as per the iPhone SDK rules.
Yay for windows mobile
iPod Touch 2G can't be JB yet.
As of about 24 hours ago, it can be =) A tethered jailbreak though, meaning to boot up your iPod you need to be connected to your PC, and it's currently only for Mac, but it's a start
There is a way to do it on Windows too.
Do we, speaking for the entire Apple community, make ourselves clear, that there is to be NO COMMENT that is negative in this article.
Windows people just make me puke... meaningless pestilence mindless zombie Bill Gates followers......you sicken me to DEATH!!!!
I think i speak for most people here on neowin
Will you just SHUT UP!
End of the day Apples so called iphone should of had flash player on it at release, just like near all other phones out there.
I also currently DON'T need to install any 3rd party firmware to get all these fancy new "features" on my Windows Mob
You don't even need to look at his history for this to be obvious.
I like it!
+1!
Don't trust Adobe.
Flash light its perfectly capable of playing video's (FLV's) as it has full compatibility with flash 8 hell it even does a decent job of rendering papervision3d.org (even if it is a bit choppy on a kaiser).
Got that steve it is a fully featured flash 8 player for fecks sake .
Ok so the flash light can handle video but what about performance even that 3d application can run fine on a device from 2007 , Its certainly not like HTML where the CPU is only needed once but as soon as the browser (HTML) starts rendering 3d and video (in 2050 most probably) it will require the same resources .
Sure rendering a papervision application is more intensive than text but 2008 devices are perfectly capable of rendering some video and 3d through flash light . It was an issue in 2006 - mid 2007 devices but not today
Its typical apple bs to demand a special player for the (sh)iphone , I dont want to have to support this rubbish phone . Lets hope adobe does the right thing and tells steve jobs where to shove it.
I am in the camp that feels Flash-based sites are largely poorly coded pieces of bloat for the most part, but the sad reality is that too many sites rely so heavily on the technology that inclusion is a necessary evil. At least for now...
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It just dosnt make sense to produce another version of the flash player with these API's included when the shiphone is already struggling with the lite client .
As for the anti flash nonsense , This is 2009 we have quad core computers becoming mainstream 4GB of ram being the norm and a markup language that cant even create a simple color gradient with code . HTML is an obamanation its evolution has been pathetically slow and because its an open standard we have effectively handed over control of the standard to the browsers .
Brilliant , Compare that to the flash player which can already render 3d content using the GPU which suffers from no variation between browsers which can be updated at any time .
Im glad to be in the pro flash and anti HTML camp because i belive that the reason why the internet is being replaced by pre-fabricated crap is because HTML is so hopefully outdated .
Last edited by bob21 on 01 Feb 2009 - 20:36
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