As you know one of my biggest pet peeves is the lack of flash support on iphone and most other mobile phones. I want to enjoy my favorite flash web apps on my mobile. Currently it takes too much effort on the part of the content publishers to repurpose their video and other content for the mobile devices. Now there is some good news. Adobe is getting aggressive in pushing flash on to the mobile devices.
February 16, 2009
February 2, 2009
Flash on iphone
One of my pet peeves against iphone is its lack of flash support. So it can’t play flash web videos unless they are ‘ported’ to iphone. I always wondered if the problem is business related or technical. Now we know the answer.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, acknowledged that supporting flash on the iphone is a challenge:
“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
I hope they deliver soon.