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Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

RedSeven3 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:02:49 -0000

It'll never happen -- and it has nothing to do with the player being too slow. It comes down to cold hard cash. There's too much money for Apple to lose by allowing flash on their device. Think of all the applications Apple would lose out on getting paid for, and all the songs and movies we could post which iTunes would never see a dime for.

I prefer not to be a pessimist, but if I've learned anything it's that when it comes to money -- billions of dollars -- Apple wants to keep a tight grip onto its slice of the pie.

Even though as a die-hard flash/flex developer I'm begging to see the player on the iPhone, I don't think it'll ever happen. Sorry for the downer.

Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

EugeneKovalik — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:10:23 -0000

It's good idea, but Macromedia should help in decision making process :-)

Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

johnFK — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:08:15 -0000

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Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

DM — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:09:08 -0000

Ultimately until the iPhone browser becomes standards compliant, able to render web pages like a normal browser it will remain a 'toy' rather than the revolutionary device it should be.

Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:19:44 -0000

The question is whether Apple will look to SVG as an alternative for Flash. SVG is lightweight, open standard, and is already supported by Firefox, Opera, and Safari.

I've speculated about this on my blog. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

Daniel
Opera Software

Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

Cell — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:51:12 -0000

I still don't understand how the iPhone/Touch is capable of running full-blown 3D games at 30 fps, yet they can't run Flash player? Really?

Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

David Jaeger — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:19:55 -0000

i would get alot of kicks if they decided to support silverlight instead. I'm laughing just thinking about it. lol.

Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

Jake Lockley — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:10:51 -0000

I think it means Adobe won't give Apple a fat check.
Flash is too slow?!? Obviously coming from people who have slow systems, code poorly, and/or have not done the research. Flash CS3 is used to create PS3 and Xbox games. Doesn't appear to be slow for 21st century technology and programmers. maybe you need to find Flash object oriented programmers instead of Flash animators. Flash will be THE development platform for the iPhone if it's supported.

Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

BostonDave — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:43:44 -0000

Regardless of if he likes Flash or not...it is a requirement for a modern day browser to support it. It is of the few items I do not like about my iPhone.

Re: Daily Poll: Will iPhone Get Flash?

Eric Florenzano — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:16:06 -0000

I like the idea of the above picture! A native google reader like that would be simply awesome.