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Adobe abandoning Flash on iPhone

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Adobe announced that it will not be continuing it’s efforts to develop an application which allows users to create apps for the iPhone in Flash.

This was huge news last year when designers who were frustrated with Apple and its development limitations could move to another platform. Web design will not have to incorporate this into the design of websites. The decision to include flash in a website will be made by the target platform.

Following industry standards is always a good move, as HTML 5 will be providing much of the features Flash offers.

Here are some comments from Adobe:

We will still be shipping the ability to target the iPhone and iPad in Flash CS5. However, we are not currently planning any additional investments in that feature…. [Apple wants] to tie developers down to their platform, and restrict their options to make it difficult for developers to target other platform.

And a response from Apple:

Someone has it backwards — it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary.

Read more here: http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/news/100422/adobe-gives-up-on-flash-for-iphone

Apr 22, 2010 / Blog

Jayson Brown

Apr 22, 2010

I always thought it was a good business practice to support your users requirements with every product you produce… Flash is here to stay, Steve get over it.

Jayson

Aug 17, 2010

It’s been a few months since my original comment, now with HTML5 you can still embed flash ‘videos’ using the new tag and those videos as long as the source is mp4 will play on the iPhone / iPad.

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