Adobe Flash Player Coming to iPhone – the Facts
Bill Perry, an Adobe evangelist for mobile and devices, provides details on Flash appearing on the iPhone.
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.
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