Recently I read that the Apple has no plans in the near future to support Flash on the iPhone. I found this curious since they boast about the phone having access to the “real internet”, but they are not supporting the plug-in with near total market saturation how can they call it the “real internet”? Earlier today in a conversation with Lee Regan and Chris Hill, Lee informed that Flash does not meet Apple’s performance standards. Apple seems to be playing the role of the over-protective parent, forbidding their users from playing with the hyper kid next door. While at the same time releasing a SDK which will allow third-party software developers to create applications for the device. Will Apple be policing the applications created using their SDK as intensely as they are Flash?
First:
Steve Jobs makes another Speech, Not about cancer!
Adobe Promises the WORLD!
..And then takes it’s statement back, Like John McCain.
And now for something Completely Different
** All links courtesy of MR. McCraken **
Ok, now I will post a serious response.
I do not feel Apple is playing the role of the over-protective parent. If anything they are playing the role of the Nazi English teaching that says your paper must be perfectly formatted and written. If I have read things correctly and gotten the idea right its that Flash Player utilizes way to many resources and to much processing power, as it should. It was never developed with the future idea that it may run on a very stripped down processor and browser. Up until about 2 years ago Flash Player was an issue on laptops as well, they just could not process the rich media Flash Player offered. This is neither a fault on Adobe’s front or manufacturers in my opinion. It came about as a side effect of the explosion of Flash Player abuse.
In all I feel at some point Flash Player will appear on such devices as Apple’s iTouch and iPhone, but like you Bryan, I do fear it will be on Apples terms(policing). It will most likely be a very strict version at first, and I can see them creating a new API for just this. It will not be the robust monster it currently is. Yet until they release something and let the development community at large rip it apart and build it back up again, I don’t really think we will know the potential, or lack there of, of this technology on such devices.