Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Adobe has Flash for iPhone in-house

Apple’s highly restrictive terms for third-party developers have made headlines quite often in the last months. One of the most annoying terms is the prohibition of interpreted code: developers may not create applications which run “user-supplied” code.

As a Flash Player does just that, Apple has not supported Flash content so far. However, the recent yanking of a British TV ad seems to have changed the minds of a few key people inside the Cupertinian fruit peddler - Flash Magazine reports that Adobe is working on a Flash Player for the iPhone.

This information comes from Paul Betlem, who spoke at the recent Flash on the Beach conference. After having received a direct question from the audience, he went on to state that his team would be working on a Flash player for the iPhone.

However, the decision about the release is not one Adobe has to make. According to Betlem, Apple is the one who makes decisions about releases - and the decision has not been made as of now…

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