Adobe Planning Flash Player For iPhone

Posted on June 18, 2008
Filed Under iPhone Web Apps

Adobe’s Flash video player that 3G iPhone lacks can still get on Apple’s phone soon, using the third-party apps program.

During Adobe’s conference call on Monday, the technical challenges for enabling Flash to work on the 3G iPhone were discussed. Good for us, but after all that technical work with Flash player for iPhone is done, Adobe will have to convince Adobe Planning Flash Player For iPhone Apple to let Flash be onto the iPhone. Apple has been critical of Flash in the past, explaining that the mobile Flash version isn’t powerful enough to become friends with iPhone.

The easiest way out for Adobe is to create a standalone Flash player. To storm the market, Adobe will need to submit it for adding to the iPhone apps store. But that won’t be like Flash on a PC, where it is integrated into a Web browser.

Adobe may create its own Web browser with Flash software built in (like using Safari’s Webkit). But there’s no guarantee that Apple will admit a Safari competitor to the apps store.

So what is the future of Flash player for iPhone? There’s a brilliant career for the iPhone platform, and Adobe is missing out if Flash is not a part of it, Perhaps the Flash plugin on the Mac is not the most polished application, but some parts of the Web, like Hulu for instance, that rely on Flash, would be great to use on the iPhone.

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