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No Flash on the iPhone?

Posted on June 26th, 2007 by admin.
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The whole internet seems to be all abuzz with the impending release of Apple’s [tag]iPhone[/tag]. But all I really care about is if it’ll have Flash support. It seems that it won’t though, at least for launch.

One of the iPhone commercials indicated that there might be Flash support on the iPhone’s browser, vivek over at i2fly had a post on this a week ago. It would seem that the images in that commercial were faked though, since further reports indicate that there’s no flash plugin on the iPhone. At WWDC Steve Jobs himself apparently said:

Jobs: “Yeah, YouTube—of course. But you don’t need to have Flash to show YouTube. All you need to do is deal with YouTube. And plus, we could get ‘em to up their video resolution at the same time, by using h.264 instead of the old codec.”

So the iPhone will have YouTube, but transcoded videos, not the Flash videos we’ve gotten used to seeing on the web.

And the last sad bit of news for Flash enthusiasts? I spoke with a source at Adobe and even they are doubtful that the iPhone will support Flash on launch, despite their helpful efforts to get Apple to include it.

What does it mean if perhaps the most eagerly anticipated cellphone ever doesn’t support Flash? How can Apple advertise “the real internet” on the iPhone without Flash support? The whole thing just leaves me confused.

[tags]Adobe, Apple, Flash, iPhone[/tags]

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