Apple and Adobe Works Together to put Flash on the iPhone
Bloomberg reports that Adobe’s Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen has revealed that Adobe is working with Apple on bringing Flash support to the iPhone, it’s been in development since June 2008, and is a customized solution just for the iPhone.
“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
Since its launch, Apple’s iPhone has notably not supported Flash. Apple has said repeatedly that regular desktop Flash is too heavy (on CPU, and thus battery life) for the iPhone, whereas Flash Lite is too lousy. Jobs has coerced Adobe to create a custom solution.
If you can remember, back in September ’08, Adobe said that there would be a version released “in a very short time” if Apple approved it. Obviously either Apple rejected it, or Adobe themselves decided it wasn’t quite resource-friendly enough to launch.
Well, many iPhone users is still waiting for the Flash on the iPhone and this news is definitely a good one, looks like it won’t be long now until we see Flash on the iPhone. [Bloomberg via AppleInsider]
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