• Adobe vs Apple: No Flash on iPhone

    Adobe vs Apple: No Flash on iPhone

    Techtree News Staff, Mar 24, 2010 1713 hrs IST

    Adobe thinks that the reason for no Flash on iPhone is an "Apple issue"

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The relationship between Adobe and Apple is turning sour slowly. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, at the company's fiscal first quarter earnings conference call, stated that the absence of Flash on the iPhone is "Apple issue". In January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had accused Adobe for being lazy and said that despite having the potential to do things, they (Adobe) won't do it.


Apple and Adobe were said to be working together to bring Adobe Flash on iPhone platform last year. However, Adobe did bring Flash to the iPhone platform but not in browser. Steve Jobs had recently called Flash a "CPU hog". Jobs annoyed Adobe further and went on to say that the world is moving to HTML5. At the first quarter conference call, Narayen was asked whether iPhone and iPad would ever get to see Flash. In response, he whiplashed the blame back to Apple saying:


"We've been fairly transparent. We're committed to bringing flash to any platform with a screen. This has nothing to do with technology. It's an Apple issue and you'll have to check in with them."


So it's clear that Adobe isn't taking any more flak from Apple. Back in 2008, Adobe's Flash Lite version for iPhone suffered from performance issues. It seems like Apple is looking to leapfrog Flash requirement in its mobile Safari browser on iPhone and will directly go for HTML5 support when it is widely used.



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(7) Comments
benny
,manchester, on Mar 25, 2010 09:22 PM
The files size from flash are also smaller than jpg images... so how can it be a cpu hog. I think that flash support should of been added to Opera, sooo let the user decide.
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da bishop
,london, on Apr 11, 2010 07:39 PM
file size has little or nothing to do with rendering runtime.
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da bishop
,london, on Apr 11, 2010 07:38 PM
it's true, the current build of flash player is incredibly CPU hungry. Adobe won't rewrite it to use OpenGL for the iphone, besides, it'd be buggy and incompatible. Flash is one of those proprietary problems, the executive leadership dictate what'll happen with it. What I think adobe should have done is build a flash-capable browser for the iphone. That would have made a lot of sense.
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Anonymous
,Canada, on Mar 24, 2010 07:04 PM
Correction, Flash Lite was NEVER on the iPhone. It certainly could have been, but this all comes back to Apple. It's not a technology issue, it is a business one. Steve can spin this how he wants. Flash in a browser, means apps would be available outside of the App Store, which is significant Revenue for them (nearly 1 billion). Plus, Adobe competes with them on quicktime video, which Flash has taken a huge market share away from them on this over the last several years. This is apple protectionism, nothing more. BTW, I'm not an Apple hater, everything i own is apple, iphone, 3 macs, 4 ipods. If anything, I'm an apple fanboy. That said, i want flash on my phone, and I'll move to Android once my contract is up to get it.
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kidrock
,mumbai, on Mar 24, 2010 05:47 PM
Recently, Steve Jobs blasted Adobe for calling Flash a "CPU hog". Lol. Ur a confused soul.
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rockkid
,mumbai, on Mar 24, 2010 05:59 PM
He is indeed deeply confused. "Adobe annoyed Jobs further and went on to say that the world is moving to HTML5."
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Prasad Naik
,Mumbai, on Mar 24, 2010 06:44 PM
The error has now been rectified.
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