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Flash Player on iPhone gossip

Sasha Dzeletovic, Friday, October 3, 2008 @ 7:59 am

First thing that came to my mind when I initially heard about the iPhone was the multi-touch possibilities that would start changing the way we create Flash/Flex interfaces (hopefully through SDK extension supporting multi-touch on Adobe's side triggered by iPhone release).

It looked very promising and natural to me in the beginning that this will be the route. Flash is a great part of the Internet experience and iPhone is a great mobile device for, among other things, Internet access.

Long time passed, and still all I can find on this topic is gossip.

Ranging from initial optimism:

iPhone Adobe Flash Support Coming
Mossberg: Apple working on Adobe Flash support for iPhone
Flash on iPhone is just around the corner
Adobe says Flash is coming to the iPhone

...to some doubts about the timeline:
Adobe Flash Coming To Apple's iPhone -- Maybe, Someday
Flash iPhone project stumbles: SDK insufficient

...to some doubts about the outcome:
Adobe bites its tongue after iPhone Flash jab
Steve Jobs: Flash Not Good Enough For iPhone. Is Microsoft's Silverlight?

...to advanced angles on the topic:
Flash on iPhone Political Calculus

After all this (and much more) gossip, I came up with the following conclusion: It has never been a better time to learn Objective-C.

If the Flash support ever pans out, I will be waiting and ready. In the meantime, it seams like a waiste not to apply all the interface development techniques learned through Flash/Flex development on iPhone and learn something new.

I dare to say that Flash/Flex developers should have an edge on at least the interface logic, and learning a new language should be on everybody's agenda from time to time.

Topics: Flash, flash player, Flex, iPhone

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Just a little update on the topic. Looks pretty grim: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3775681/No+Flash+Seen+on+iPhone+Horizon.htm

Comment by Sasha Dzeletovic, Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 1:04 pm

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