Apple Will Never Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone?

Post published on 19th November 2008

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe’s Flash software: Apple’s terms-of-service agreement prohibits it. Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset’s App Store, no matter how much customers want it.

Why Apple Won’t Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone? Allowing Flash — which is a development platform of its own — would just be too dangerous for Apple, a company that enjoys exerting total dominance over its hardware and the software that runs on it. Flash has evolved from being a mere animation player into a multimedia platform capable of running applications of its own.

That means Flash would open a new door for application developers to get their software onto the iPhone: Just code them in Flash and put them on a web page. In so doing, Flash would divert business from the App Store, as well as enable publishers to distribute music, videos and movies that could compete with the iTunes Store.

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John Freeland

November 23rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm


Apple is _all_ about the user experience - remember that Flash is very insecure, an unsandboxed environment. I personally would not want Flash enabled on my iPhone due to the rather severe risk that my device could be compromised.

ositaka

November 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm


In my opinion Apple had the best chooser ever… I’m a web designer and all people knows that is much more easy to do a web site that’s work with a plugin instead of do hard hand code and so…