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Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: February 15, 2009
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Did Adobe snub Apple with Flash 10, Palm Pre, and Dev Fund announcements?


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Just now Adobe announced lots of mobile phone news. More on that in a second. But what wasn’t announced?
No iPhone support for Flash yet.

What else was announced? FlashPlayer 10 will ship on the Palm Pre. I was briefed on the rest of this stuff last week and they were holding out on this news.

Now THAT is the way to poke Steve Jobs and crew in the eye. Apple has famously not put Flash on the iPhone, which keeps a lot of Web experiences from working.

Flash Player 10 for Smartphones
• Browser plug-in for smartphone-class devices with full desktop web compatibility and access to rich applications, interactive content and web videos.
• First operating systems expected to be supported: Android, Windows Mobile, and Nokia S60/Symbian.

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3 Archived Responses to “ Did Adobe snub Apple with Flash 10, Palm Pre, and Dev Fund announcements? ”

  1. MarkT
    Feb 16, 2009

    Try getting your facts straight:
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10164745-94.html

    “We would love to see it on the iPhone, too,” said Anup Murarka, director of Technology Strategy and Partner Development for Adobe. “But it's Apple's decision on when and how they support any new technology. So we will continue to work on it.”

  2. Tom
    Feb 17, 2009

    A full Adobe Flash (as oposed to the worthless Flash Lite) has not run on a mobile device yet. Let's wait and see if it performs worth a darn before crowing, 'K?

    Further, even if it does so, you should point out that Adobe's Flash on the Mac runs about a bajillion times slower than its Windows counterpart. Adobe has only in the last three years or so even bothered to even acknowledge the Mac's existence again. It may be a while before they get Flash working well on the Mac desktop, let alone the iPhone.

    Finally, it wasn't a snub. Adobe goes out of their way to beg, er, I mean, to state that they'll put Flash on the iPhone as soon as Apple lets them.

  3. Funkminsta Fulla
    May 20, 2009

    This is less of a snub to Apple and more of a reminder that there are other mobile platform vendors out there that may be less draconian and willing to play ball. IMHO Adobe's best strategy would be to get Flash 10 on as many mobile devices as possible and team up with app developers to create a killer app that really makes it feel painful to not have Flash 10 support.