Adobe Forging Ahead with Flash for the iPhone

Engadget is reporting that Adobe (ADBE) plans to build Flash into the iPhone with the newly released SDK, even though Steve Jobs declared less than two weeks ago that the technology wasn’t ready for the device.

So what about all that fuss Jobs made about needing another version of Flash that was more capable than the mobile version but less power hungry than the desktop one? Well, I guess we’re going to have to see just what Adobe comes up with. Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen is quoted as saying “We have evaluated [the software developer tools] and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”

Now it’s Microsoft’s (MSFT) turn to declare plans for putting Silverlight on the iPhone with the SDK, something Scott Guthrie, VP of Microsoft’s Developer Platform, has suggested the company might do.

Comments

[MikeSX:]

If both Microsoft and Adobe are writing video software for this platform, it seems to me that they have identified a market that they deem to be a valuable and growing profit center. They have their "buy" orders in!

2008 Mar 19 01:53 PM

[Tom B:]

"Now it’s Microsoft’s (MSFT) turn to declare plans for putting Silverlight on the iPhone "

Flash is bad enough; why suck up every possible CPU cycle with obnoxious Countrywide Mortgage ads?

2008 Mar 19 01:54 PM

[FreeRange:]

Hopefully Apple will keep Silverlight off the iphone - who needs MS crap software? All MS is trying to do is take another competitor (Adobe) out and continue their march to total world domination in every area...

2008 Mar 19 04:05 PM