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Monday February 11, 2008 1:28 pm
Flash on iPhone is just around the corner
Posted by Andru Edwards
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EDIT: Here is an update on the whole Flash on iPhone situation.
We’ve been waiting for Flash support to hit the iPhone ever since...well...it launched. We’ve had to make do without Flash for almost eight months, and YouTube even had to convert a bunch of their catalog to H.264 in order for the service to be enjoyed on the iPhone. Well, we’ve just got word from a reliable source that Flash support is on its way to the iPhone, and it should be coming very, very soon. Speculating a bit further on our own, we are guessing that it would be pretty convenient for Flash support to be introduced alongside the iPhone SDK, wouldn’t you say? Now, we know that there isn’t much information here, but you also know how strong our sources are too - Flash on the iPhone is coming, just take our word for it, okay?
EDIT: We already have had a couple people ask about the supposed battery and CPU issues that were holding Flash back from being included on the iPhone in the first place. From what I am hearing, it was a complete fabrication. Flash has not yet made it to the iPhone solely due to business negotiations. As we said, it is now on its way!
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Flash’s h264 should use the same processing power as Quicktime h264, right?!?
Perhaps the older flash (h264 flash wasn’t available 1 year ago!!!) wouldn’t use iPhone hardware acceleration or something?
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This is old news
I already spread the word on this back in November in the #iphone & #iphone-dev channels as well as ones I cannot mention
But good to hear my source was right.
still...did you really think they would not add flash?
and yes.. ITS ABOUT TIME!
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Here is an interesting counter article:
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/02/13/adobe-clueless-about-flash-on-iphone-technical-hurdles-remain/
Do you have any comments?
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Alex,
Good read...and it makes sense. Unfortunately, the only comment that I have is that I gave you the information that I got from our sources. They’ve come through for us in the past, but quite honestly, we never know until we get our hands on it.
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another good counter: http://daringfireball.net/2008/02/flash_iphone_calculus
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Gabe,
Interesting read and it also makes sense. I wonder if the GL source is confused/misinformed and Apple is going to support SVG on the iPhone. Certainly less of an announcement, but it would be welcome nonetheless.
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Gabe, interesting article. although the end of the article facetiously asks if Apple is losing sales due to the lack of flash. To answer: Yes, I haven’t bought an iPhone due to it’s lack of flash support. Once flash is supported, I’ll be on board.
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I also wrote about this http://appleintellect.com/flash-on-the-iphone-will-it-happen/
Its not very opinionative though, just stating what some people have already said.
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I think that GL’s “source” has proven them selves in the past with the 1.1.3 leak and I am really hopping this is the same story.
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Let’s hope this happens. The Touch just keeps getting better. 32GB!
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It would open up a lot of options for sure
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Is this set to debut at the end of Febuary with the SDK?
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Maybe, flash can be the SDK. Because the capability of actionscript is very large, there is no need to have another language on the iphone.
And maybe apple want buy adobe????
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Why has nobody thought about this?
The Flash Player expects input to come from a KEYBOARD and a MOUSE.
How do you perform a mouseOver with the iPhone? You can’t.
How do you drag items with an iPhone? You can’t. Hence the special app for Google Maps.
How can you use the iPhone’s soft keyboard for input when no text field is selected? You can’t.
There are no battery life issues, this isn’t bad politics between Adobe and Apple, this is just an incompatible interface, plain and simple.
Apple’s not going to put software on their phone that sort-of works, some of the time, if the content developer has jumped through special hoops, and Adobe’s not going to go back on their commitment to a consistent experience across all platforms just for a phone.
BTW, Flash != Flash Video
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Iphone wont have full flash thats for sure but something like a mobileflash with limited features.. As for the drag and drop it can be done…
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Oh, look, 1.1.4 is out and still no Flash Player. Hmm.
@antonymous: Even if Adobe were to release a Flash Player which isn’t compatible with other Flash Players (which they would never do - Flash Light is for UI’s, not web pages), there would still be mountains of Flash content out there that would not work with it. Apple doesn’t want the message ‘sorry, your player is not supported’ appearing on their device which promises the “real Internet - not the mobile Internet”
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@seanonymous - Yes, 1.1.4 is out, but the SDK isn’t. Of course, the whole “Flash alongside SDK” thing is my own prediction, and not anything that came from a source. I am still holding out for that. We’ll see.
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TODAY TODAY TODAY!!
FLash VIDEO on iPHONE!
there is a solution to play all flash videos on your iPhone and iPod — its free - and it works. Great! Now i can visit all videopages with video content and can watch them right on my iPhone.
http://videohamster.com/ipod
Try it and enjoy it. iPhone optimized webpage.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… I Love how quickly the speculation wheels start turning. There’s a good chance my name might be used in the next round of spots also (we’ve all signed releases) but what name is used has little to no bearing on what functionality is coming to the iPhone. We are the ad agency, and we have fun with what content is used marketing wise. Im not saying it is or isnt(frankly i dont know), but i do know you guys are funny. We DO NOT PUT hidden messages in our ads. Every pixel is scrutinized from beginning to end by about 30 people....
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No flash anytime soon, coming right from Steve Jobs:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20080304-717063.html?mod=hps_us_my_companies
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If you want to know what the deal is, all you have to do is OPEN YOUR EYES.
*.flv files play fine on the iPhone in the Youtube.app.
MobileSafari has no download, copy or paste. Or Flash.
A light version of WebKit drives MobileMail.app and MobileSafari.app.
So -why- would Jobs want a buggy piece of **** embedding in Mail / Safari when he’s trying to court Enterprise users?
Who are adults?
And not kids who want flying baloney?
Apple wants to control the user experience to eliminate support headaches. And court adults who actually pay $$$ for _reliability_ and not blingBlong *cough* FLASHiness.
This should be obvious to anyone who uses an iPod Touch or iPhone in a business setting, ie to gather information via RSS and not just watch JoeCartoon.com all day.
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im waiting for that flash release.. but i know it wont happen soon! if safari could download mp3 files, images, and plays flash, the iphone would be the best!!!
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Flash is cool but its not that neccesary..
i would rather have PICTURE MESSAGING .. LANDSCAPE KEYBOARD FOR TEXTING.. ability to set picture from the web as background on phone.
other things like that should come before flash
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Wake up people
Its just friggin software...for gods sake that means it is crackazoid soon enough by some talented geek who hasnt discovered women yet and uses the pent up frustration to drive his next project between lukewarm Pizza…
Look I just broke my Brand new 8gb uploaded and connected to T-Mobile in less than 4.3 mins.. and youtell me Flash isnt coming to the IPhone?
or MP3 downloads, and streaming vids .. look if Uncle Steve doesnt implement it the market will… hes created a monster and theres no single compnay that will stop underground development on these this device… we just have to be patient..... or create some middleware to get round these issues…
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I can’t wait for flash on the iphone. I wanna hear 1010wins live on my iPhone.
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Look like some of the people here don’t know what flash is >.<. If you had flash you could watch *any* movie without having to put it on your ipod by using websites like filmhill.
ZenMaster, you can’t ‘crack’ new features. apple aren’t blocking you from using flash, they just haven’t made it. Maybe you should contact the apple dev team to tell them about your ‘middleware’ idea. Or maybe you could explain to them that making software is easy and that all you need to do is crackazoid them. Haha.
“Look I just broke my Brand new 8gb uploaded and connected to T-Mobile in less than 4.3 mins”
NO, you used someone elses program to do it for you. All you did was press a few buttons in 4.3 minutes. Clever monkey.
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it’s been two and a half months since this item was posted.
Has there been some Flash announcement that I missed?
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I hope you’re right about flash being around the corner. The reality is that everybody has invested so much of their time and money on flash/actionscript development that we will be extremely unhappy if we can’t use our existing skills and existing hard work on this new important platform. It’s not just about flashy intros and adverts, there’s been tons of recent development in very cool and very useful flash apps.
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