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[grafxflow_admin]

Hi Everyone,

I was just checking my 'Apple Hot News' in my mail app as usual and this header caught my eye 'Thoughts on Flash'... article link.

The article is a general summing up of the reasons why flash will not be available on iPhone and iPad products. All I will say it makes very interesting reading regarding Steve Jobs 'Thoughts on Flash' or should that be Steve Jobs 'Thoughts on Adobe'.

But he doesn't seem to be alone regarding these thoughts on flash since there is also an article from Microsoft article link. More or less saying the same thing about its future.

Are flash's days numbered? I dought it!

grafxflow_admin

[rubber duckie]

So what does this mean for the likes of Flash CS5 which is able to do iPhone Applications?

[mr apple]

This could be leading to a whole load of trouble. Just had a look at the draft of the new iPhone developer program license:

3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

So apple maybe able to block any iPhone app created using flash CS5... but I have also just read this from the source - New York Post

Apple May Be Forced to Allow Developers to Create iPhone Apps with Adobe Tools

The U.S. government is supposedly looking into whether Apple broke antitrust law with a recent change in its developer agreement that blocks the use of tools like Adobe Flash CS5 to create iPhone apps.

Adobe recently released Flash CS5, which enabled developers to create both Flash and iPhone versions of their software. In response, Apple changed the iPhone developer program license to say that apps must be created with Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript, excluding Adobe's tool.

Now there is word that the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are in the process of deciding which of  these two will start an investigation on whether Apple's move violates U.S. antitrust laws. The investigation will supposedly center around whether Apple's move is intended to make it harder for developers to create cross-platform applications.

[jedi_guru]

Just read the Steve Jobs article on his thoughts on flash, and its pretty obvious that he has no liking of adobe. But look at most of the products creative people use on a mac and they will be adobe products. I just think its another way of apple controlling the itunes market and the like, but the only problems I can see at the moment are for the developers of apps for mobile phones. If flash and air was an option then you could create an app and it would be universal. Yet if apple get their way then every developer will have to create two versions of every app they program.

Not good!!!  

[zapper]

So this means you can go to all the trouble and time creating an iPhone app using Flash CS5 and last minute apple can (will) just say no.