Comments on: The iPhone and Flash

By: Vito

Vito — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

"…they could write their own Flash 7 engine for the iPhone, since the SDK is available, though that would seemingly be a waste of our time and their resources, since Flash 9 already has very high penetration numbers. …".

If we look so far, we can see also the release of Flash 10! So I think that can be more useful to focus our assumption on today.

Now, there are very few sites that don’t work with Flash Player 8, based on the same engine of Flash Lite 3 that has been just released and is enough to see also YouTube videos.

So, for the actual power of mobile devices, Flash Lite 3 is the best way to bring Flash and today "real Internet" on iPhone.

By: Shannon Hicks

Shannon Hicks — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

@ amanda:

It’s difficult if not impossible to build your own flash player. You would have to reverse engineer the SWF file format, because the SWF file format spec license specifically forbids using the information for building your own player (http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/). Then, even if you were successful in your reverse-engineering process, prepare to hear from Adobe’s lawyers and have proof that you did it legally.

By: amanda

amanda — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

i know nothing about programming but how hard is it to develop a flash like platform that plays flash web content that isnt adobe itself?

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the information, I’m a bit disappointed as well that the iPhone doesn’t support Flash…

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

700k units sold in its first weekend. Not bad for 1% of the market.

By: Make Free Money Online

Make Free Money Online — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with you about the fact that targeting only 1% cell phone market is too low. But from marketing point of view this is what Apple is good at. They will keep the product quantity low to increase market demand as a result domination of market for this new iphone technology.

I do not know what actually happened between these two (Adobe and Apple) at product development stage but this is definite that it’s Apple who would be more benefited from adopting Adobe’s Flash Lite.

By: a

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It’s got to be one of the most major oversights I’ve seen from apple actually.

I guess this means they’re not implementing windows media player as well as expect people to have a good internet browsing experience.

No java either.

Im not sure what they’re on, but its pissing quite a few people off

By: seamus

seamus — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

my understanding is that they’ve avoided the Flash player to keep processor usage to a minimum. still upsets me as a Flash developer, but from that perspective i guess i can understand. remember, this is supposed to be a mobile phone, mp3 player and browser for (i would guess) a 14-hour day on average.

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Great feedback Shannon. Since I haven’t specifically seen anything announced by Adobe, I’m curious as to their position on the iPhone as an application platform. The single cell provider thing is a bummer but if the iPhone does become some major business productivity tool, even that 1% could be a good nice market.

I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what can be done on it and hopefully can use some form of Adobe technology to do it.