Flash on the iPhone? about time
Not having an officially released iPhone in New Zealand does limit my interest in iPhone related news, and the fact that 3G enabled handsets aren't on the cards till later this year, I still couldn't understand why Adobe and Apple didn't get together to see the flash player on the iPhone.
Well all that seems to be set to change. A leak was made to gearlive.com who apparently has good sources saying
"Well, we’ve just got word from a reliable source that Flash support is on its way to the iPhone, and it should be coming very, very soon."
This coupled with the fact that they have increased the clock speed of the CPU makes it sound plausible.
About time! With the market penatration of the iPhone and its great (from what I have seen) usability, having the flash player on the iPhone will open a lot more possibilities to us all as flash developers.
Here’s to hoping that it’s the regular version. Not Flash Lite!
The iPhone doesn’t have flash for the same reason it doesn’t have a java interpreter… Adobe receives pretty substantial royalties for every handset that has flash on it. Sun does too, the J2ME royalties are supposedly a rather substantial part of their bottom line.
For example, Google’s Android? Uses Java right? Yes, but not really. Android has a bytecode converter and runs their own in-house VM. No royalties for Sun there!
Well, I just heard that Adobe’s now able to develop a version of flash for the iPhone because of the SDK. But now there seem to be more problems with regard to the license.
(at) Jason. I’m not sure, but I think I have heard something about Java on the iPhone. At the moment it does not have an interpreter. But I think it’s going to have one with the firmware update next summer.
Java is already avaible on the iphone 3g
Although we need to wait for a official plugin, there ist a project called “Gordon” which lets you display flash content at your phone. Have a try. It’s worth the recommendation.