Flash is not coming to the iPhone, at least not until Apple lightens up their restrictions. This is the message I take from the latest little jab at Apple, which comes courtesy of Adobe.
The message is simple and to the point;
Flash Player not available for your device
Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch.
It also hits Apple right at home, because the message is being delivered to iPhone and iPod Touch users that visit the get.adobe.com website. Honestly I have lived without Flash support for so long I am not sure I even miss it now. That said, I am sure many will disagree with me and claim its a must have item. Maybe having Flash support can become the copy and paste for 2010.
I should point out, as Gear Diary did, this may not be a new message. It is however new to them, and it was new to me, so with that it may also be new to you. Either way, enjoy a little jab at Apple courtesy of Adobe.
[via Gear Diary]
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
All I can say about Flash on the iPhone is: if it ever actually makes into the platform, it had *better* come with the option to turn it off; I simply don’t want Flash on my iPhone. I’m happy that Apple has told Adobe to take a hike on this one. I wish Flash would just die on the web too. Flash sucks.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
People want Flash on the iPhone for one reason, and one reason only and it begins with ‘P’. I’ve lived without it for the past year-and-a-half and can easily continue to do so.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Once apple approves flash for the iphone, the App store becomes irrelevant, and apple will lose houndreds of millions of dollars. Anyone who knows flash can write his own app And publish it , without going through the whole app-store approving routin.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:12 am
The ONLY reason I’d like flash is the videos. I’m disabled, often bedbound-I also still work when I can, as a “fact-checker” for some Progressive journalists. Bloggers, and liberal talk radio folks. I HAVE to be able to watch videos on certain sites-but, am constantly met with the “enable flash” or “your device doesn’t support flash”, etc. I tried a site which was supposed to enable this-could never get it to work, and now the site is gone. Any ideas? (Yes, I have a laptop & netbook-iPhone is just so much easier for me
. Thanx!!
November 19th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
This is a great post and its very creative indeed but if only you people would properly give cubefield a shot. Its a great game. Very addicitve and very entertaining to all age groups.