Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen has confirmed that his company is still working on porting a Flash interpreter to the iPhone, despite Apple’s lack of interest.
A team at Adobe now has a working build of a Flash plug-in for Safari that runs under an iPhone emulator. They plan to continue development and test it on a (presumably Jailbroken) handset.
Thing is, though, Apple don’t seem to want it to happen. Flash is a potentially useful add on for the end user (YouTube alone would make it worthwhile) but the arbitrary nature of Flash interfaces wouldn’t sit well with the iBrand – not to mention potentialy looking horrible if run n the iPhone’s small screen.
More than that, it would be another unauthorised route foraps to creep onto the handset. A route Apple DO NOT CONTROL, which obviously cannot be allowed.
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