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Adobe can't Flash up the Iphone on its own
WHEN ADOBE CHIEF executive Shantanu Narayen said his firm wanted to put its Flash player on the Iphone he was pretty unequivocal.
"We've evaluated the SDK" (Software Developers Kit), he said earlier this week. "We can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves, and we think it benefits our joint customers."
Turns out he was talking cobblers and Adobe won't have a chance of getting the Iphone to run the Flash player without Apple's help
"To bring the full capabilities of Flash to the Iphone Web-browsing experience, we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current licence around it," the company said in updated statement, which corrected the CEO.
Whether Apple will help out here is another matter. Flash might be everywhere on the interwibble today. It may not be tomorrow. ยต
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So does this mean apple prefers the MS alternative? Or are they secretly making their own incarnation of a flash-like pest?
Cause he was most likely refering to porting Flash Lite 2, the same version many other phones have. This is not browser integrated either...

However, while they can develop this for sure, they still need Apple's permission to put it on the iPhone, cause the only way it's gonna get on there is through the Apple store or jailbreaking your phone. 

Having a Flash player means content developers could bypass apple's little store, and run any flash content they want (including applications in direct competition with Apple).

The same goed for all Sun's talk about putting Java on the iPhone.

It's not that these companies don't know this, it's all PR. They want to make Apple (and mighty Steve himself) look like the bad guy when they'll refuse to accept their platforms on his jesus phone, hoping he might cave in.. but probably only with a compromise (where Java and Flash applications will have to be pre-approved by Steve just like regular applications)
Are there any chances to the Web to become HTML-"only" again? The only real reason to keep Flash that I see is that webmasters use it in the first page of their websites to please the chairman (and annoy his clients in the process, specially when there isn't a "skip intro" link).

Well I think we can live without websites jumping in our faces, but what I really fear is the return of the freaking awful JAVA APPLETS!
Anything NOT under their thumb is no good, the pattern is clear enough.

They want to build a platform without sharing it. It is only a matter before they get a slap on the hand.