Will Flash be iPhone’s downfall?

Remember way back when Adobe was angling to work with Apple to get Flash on the iPhone? Apple seemingly had no interest in working with Adobe and to date, the mighty iPhone can’t handle Flash. Fast forward a couple years and it seems that Adobe was kind of upset Apple for the cold shoulder.

Back then, Steve Jobs said that Adobe was built for large machines with vast resources. Running it on an iPhone consumes too much power, too much computing power, and runs slowly. Maybe the iPhone just can’t handle it?

Seems other smartphones can. Adobe announced it has deals with Palm for the webOS, Google’s Android, and even RIM’s BlackBerry OS. Flash (not Flash Lite) is coming to mobiles and Adobe thinks it is going to be a hit. Symbian and Windows Mobile are also on the schedule. It is likely, Palm’s webOS will get first crack at the new Flash 10.1.

From paidcontent.org:

The new Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software will be one piece of software that work across PCs, smartphones, netbooks and other devices, which is the vision of the company’s Open Screen Project

Adobe admits there still may need to be some tweaking to get full Flash working on these mobile operating systems but downplays it.

Back in March of 2008, I said that Flash would suffer from a lack of iPhone compatibility. With HTML5 in the near future, I am not sure how this is going to play out. It will be interesting for sure.

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