A lot of iPhone detractors laughed at the flashless phone, and when I say "flashless," this has two meanings, unfortunately for Apple - first, its camera doesn't have a flash, and second, it doesn't have support for Adobe Flash Web content. Since a lot of iPhone users are browsing the Web, this last "flash issue" seems pretty serious, but - at least so far - nothing happened. Only rumors, and nothing more.
Interviewed by Bloomberg, Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen said the entire development of Flash for iPhone is a hard two-way-process, and it also depends on App Store approval before it makes it to our iPhones: "It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating. The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver."
Damn, others are developing entire mobile phones with their software in less than a year, and when I see all these iPhone flash news... it makes me think "WTF are these guys doing, after all?" and nothing more. Come on, Apple, come on, Adobe!
Just think about this - Apple is advocating HTML 5 as a replacement to Flash, while working with Mozilla and Opera to get things on the move with HTML 5 instead of Flash. Ehem...so, is this betrayal, or not? It would be a pity to see Flash for iPhone appearing just in time to be severely owned by HTML 5, don't you think?
Well, that's for today's iPhone Flash news - nothing really special, as usual, only a reiteration of what we already knew - Adobe's Flash for iPhone is still "work in progress," or, who knows, maybe even worse - "work in regress..."
