Report: Flash For iPhone ‘Wishful Thinking’

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Owners of Apple’s iPhone should not hold their breath waiting for a version of Flash for the favorite handset. Adobe is now reticent to talk about whether it was working with the Cupertino, Calif.-based company.

“Adobe needs more from Apple to succeed than Apple ordinarily makes available to iPhone software developers,” Dow Jones wrote Tuesday after talking with an Adobe spokeswoman.

The refusal by Adobe to comment on its relationship with Apple caused one Apple fan site to pour cold water on previous suggestions the two companies were working closely on an iPhone version of Flash.


“Flash on the iPhone again sounding like wishful thinking,” wrote Apple Insider Wednesday.

In January, Adobe CEO Shantanu told Bloomberg “Apple and Adobe are collaborating” to overcome want the executive called “a hard technical challenge.”

Earlier this week, Adobe announced a new version of Adbe Flash Lite for a number of cell phones. Noticeably absent was mention of the iPhone.

The relationship between Adobe and Apple is marked by CEO Steve Jobs declaring Flash Lite incapable of fully supporting the iPhone while the desktop version of Flash was deemed “too slow” for the popular handset.

Apple has taken steps to ween iPhone users from Flash. Apple describes Flash as “unsupported technology” while advising developers to avoid Flash and Java.

For users, Apple hopes to offer the H.264 standard as an alternative to Flash when viewing video content on Google’s YouTube, according to Apple Insider.

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