Flash – coming to an iPhone near you
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Magnificent news today – Adobe and Apple are have actually confirmed they’re working together on getting flash onto the iPhone! I don’t know if I’m behind the times or anything but it’s news to me so I just had to blog about it. Of course we’ve known since last year that at least Adobe was doing some work on it, but now it’s official that Apple is involved in the effort also. This is very exciting for those of us who’ve been harping on about it for a while now. I’ve been doing some work on Objective-C coding for the iPhone and will continue that, but it’s cool to think I might be able to leverage my AS3 skills on it at some point in the not too distant future.
Comments in the various news articles make clear that we’re not going to see a standard flash player release on the device, but more likely something new. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying that the browser plugin doesn’t have enough functionality built into it, so I will be interested to see where they go with this. Obviously getting any kind of flash onto the iphone can only be good for adobe – and I can’t but think it would be good for Apple too. While the App store has been doing well, iphone development doesn’t really seem to be going very far very fast, and I think a lot of that is due to the app store itself and to the nature of coding for the iphone. Opening up the platform to the much larger flash platform community could see some awesome things happening.
Of course this doesn’t mean the device will become open – maybe we’ll still need to deploy flash apps through the app store, who knows. All I care about is that there’s finally some official word that something is at least being attempted! Here’s hoping it is seen through to fruition and that we can all start hacking flash and flex on the iphone 
Source:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/31/adobe_apple_working_together_on_flash_for_iphone.html
