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Flash is / is not Coming to the iPhone, The Saga Continues

Posted by iphonefan

March 19, 2008 |

Do you remember a few months ago when there was a rumor surrounding Flash being released with iPhone firmware 1.1.3? That didn’t happen.

Then, do you remember when, a few weeks later Steve Jobs came out and said that Flash was not the right product for the iPhone? That was final(ish).

Then, did you hear the other day when when Adobe’s Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen said:

“We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone,” Narayen said. “We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”

Wasn’t that great?

Oh, but did you hear today when Adobe, took it all back and said:

” However, to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone Web-browsing experience, we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it,” the company said. “We think Flash availability on the iPhone benefits Apple and Adobe’s millions of joint customers, so we want to work with Apple to bring these capabilities to the device.”

WTF??!!??  This is absolutely ridiculous.  This is one of the worst, passive-aggressive, he-said/he-also-said arguments I have ever seen.  I feel like an ignored step child in the middle of a custody battle.  Has anyone stopped to ask the user what they want?  Are we willing to sacrifice some battery for flash, or is flash even necessary in a mobile world of Java and AJAX?

Tell you what Mr. Narayen and Mr. Jobs, figure this out and move on.  The sooner we can get these awkward details out of the way, the sooner we can have an iPhone that does what we all want.


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