Flash is Coming to the iPhone
Paul Betlem (senior director of engineering at Adobe Systems) confirmed that Flash is coming to iPhone. However, Betlem says that "Apple calls the shots as to when it'll be available".
Adobe's CEO said in mid-June that the company already has Flash running
on an iPhone emulator (presumably the same emulator included with
Apple's iPhone SDK)
Upon a direct question from the audience, at an Adobe Town Hall meeting session, Paul Betlem for the first time publicly confirmed that Adobe is actively developing a Flash Player for Apple's popular phone. He said (not direct quote) 'My team is working on Flash on the iPhone, but it's a closed platform.'
He noted that Apple makes all the decisions, so in other words, the ball is in Apple's yard at this time. If Apple says yes, Adobe will have the player available in a very short time.
The Flash performance and usage is abysmal on current mobile devices that
support playback. Mobile device processors--including the
iPhone's--simply aren't fast enough to handle most Flash-laden sites.
Flash Lite, the scaled-down standard designed specifically for mobile
devices, is even too much for most devices, and isn't widely used.
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