Flash already on iPhone?
March 6th 2008
On Tuesday, Steve Jobs said current implementations of Flash just aren't good enough for the iPhone.
Today, Robert Scoble quotes an unnamed source that says Flash on the iPhone isn't a problem, it's a negotiating tactic:
He says that he's seen Flash running on an iPhone in a lab and that it's been running for quite a while and that it's not a technical issue that caused Steve Jobs to go public about not putting Adobe's Flash on the iPhone. He wrote "Geez--my Chumby with half the CPU horsepower can run Flash8/AS2."
According to Scoble's source, the reason Apple's playing hardball on Flash is to get Adobe to drop its demand that the iPhone implement Adobe's PDF renderer.
Far fetched? Perhaps, but this line of reasoning does explain a lot...
What's your take?
Available in silver, blue, green and pink, only $99!
