Confirmed: Apple and Adobe Collaborating on iPhone Flash

Re:Confirmed: Apple and Adobe Collaborating on iPhone Flash by icefox on Sunday February 01, 2009 @10:17AM (#460905)

Not technical? Flash is a piece of junk that leaks memory, crashes and causes your cpu to spike (less battery life). How is this a good thing on a iPhone?

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Re:Confirmed: Apple and Adobe Collaborating on iPhone Flash by allenbrunson on Sunday February 01, 2009 @10:36AM (#460916)

My impression is that Flash is pretty good (technically) on Windows, it's a CPU hog on Macs, and somewhat crashy on Linux. Still, it could be worse. Think RealVideo.

But that's kind of beside the point. I'm guessing that Apple's real objection to Flash on the iPhone is that they don't want Adobe to be in charge of something that important. Apple likes to be in control of their own destiny, and they're one of the few companies with the clout to get away with something like that.

iPhone is a whole new platform, in a sense. If Apple keeps Flash off of it for long enough, the developer community might make do with alternatives -- javascript, quicktime, etc -- so that Adobe's stranglehold on web media doesn't carry over to the newly burgeoning iPhone world.

I'm guessing Adobe is all too aware of this possibility, which is why they're lobbying so hard to get in there and assert their dominance.

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Re:Confirmed: Apple and Adobe Collaborating on iPhone Flash by bonaldi on Sunday February 01, 2009 @11:42AM (#460997)

If Adobe had bothered making a reasonable Flash player for the Mac, Apple would have a much weaker public case for not including it on the iPhone. But Adobe's long neglect of the Mac is now returning to bite them.

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Re:Confirmed: Apple and Adobe Collaborating on iPhone Flash by endtime on Monday February 02, 2009 @05:55AM (#462135)

But that's kind of beside the point. I'm guessing that Apple's real objection to Flash on the iPhone is that they don't want Adobe to be in charge of something that important. Apple likes to be in control of their own destiny, and they're one of the few companies with the clout to get away with something like that.

I think it's something similar, but slightly different: that Apple doesn't want any code running on your iPhone that didn't go through the App Store.

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Re:Confirmed: Apple and Adobe Collaborating on iPhone Flash by StrawberryFrog on Monday February 02, 2009 @09:00AM (#462260)

But Apple does have philosophical objections to flash on iPhone. i.e. you can use it to run apps without going via the apple app store.

You might think "how much of an app will that be? it will be a flood of crapware". But then take a look at what people are willing to pay Apple $5 for.

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