Another quarter and another hope that Adobe’s Flash will someday make an appearance on Apple’s iPhone.
On Adobe’s second quarter conference call, CEO Shantanu Narayen was asked about the 3G iPhone and whether Flash will be on the device. Here’s what Narayen had to say following Adobe’s earnings report:
With respect to the iPhone, we are working on it. We have a version that’s working on the emulation. This is still on the computer and you know, we have to continue to move it from a test environment onto the device and continue to make it work. So we are pleased with the internal progress that we’ve made to date.
A quarter ago, Adobe had to clarify comments Narayen made on the previous conference call.
The upshot: Adobe would really like its Flash to be on the iPhone–ideally included. The problem: Apple won’t play ball. Next quarter Adobe will toil with Flash some more and try to make it iPhone friendly enough to satisfy Apple.
However, given that Apple is working with SproutCore (see Ryan Stewart’s take and Techmeme) it’s unlikely this Adobe-Apple standoff, which really revolves around Flash lock-in according to Matt Asay, will be resolved any time soon.
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This article has 6 comments:
- HarryDee
- 1 Comment
Jun 17 04:24 PM- nyctrax
- 56 Comments
Jun 17 05:09 PM- AppleFinland
- 8 Comments
Jun 17 05:52 PMLegions of people agree.
Flash is a vexed and hated relic of in-your-face, web-experience-killing... bloated garbage unsuitable for mobile devices .. period.
Jobs won the first round already with YouTube and their adoption of H.264 to link with their iPhones. I can't see him following down the same tired, failed path of Nokia et al with Flash Lite.
Its crap. Steve ... DON'T DO IT. Lets keep our iPhone browsing experiences clean and fun.
- J Rizzo
- 3 Comments
Jun 18 08:50 AMI think Steve Jobs made it pretty clear - he isn't against using Flash, but Adobe needs to pick up the slack and improve Flash enough to be suitable for mobile browsing.
- brewer
- 388 Comments
Jun 18 11:51 AMFlash simply can't handle anything larger than a banner add with any efficiency--especially if it's video and not some composted image.
- Tom B
- 1741 Comments
Jun 19 08:53 AMAs for PDF-- great format. And 99% of the time, Apple's Preview beats the pants off Adobe's slow, bloated Acrobat. If Apple juiced up Preview's authoring features, that would be a lost market for Adobe, just like Apple's Final Cut Pro sent Adobe Premiere into virtual oblivion.
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