by Don Burnett
Flash for the Apple iPhone has become a very hot topic since the release of the iPhone/iPod Touch SDK. The latest official news is it may not be happening.. According to an ArsTechnica article : "Jobs asserted that Flash ran too slowly on the iPhone—which is another way of saying the iPhone isn't fast enough to run Flash—and suggested that something else was needed. "There's this missing product in the middle," Jobs said. "It just doesn't exist. We enjoy a good relationship with Adobe."
"Look up in the sky it's a Bird, it's a Plane,.. This is a job for..GNASH ??"
I have a suggestion with this impasse, a third party step in and port their "Flash" plug-in.. I think this job for GNASH.. We could easily see this ported to the SDK and then released.. Then it would side-step wrangling by whoever is really holding out on this happening. That way...
- Neither Apple or Adobe are responsible for it's performance or purported "Lack of Performance".
- You can't blame Adobe or Apple for Battery Life issues
- Security is out the window from Adobe or Apple so it's use at your own risk.
- The community that uses it and develops it takes responsibility for it and it's improvements features are dictated by the community that uses it (how it works etc.)
I really hope this happens just as I'd like to see Silverlight everywhere too. Seems to me Silverlight Mobile (being on Nokia Internet Devices that use Linux is a really big deal).. And Silverlight seems to be feeling the mobile love over Flash..
Flash Support through QuickTime?
Over at that ArsTechnica article the vast majority of commenters didn't care if they got Flash for iPhone or not. It seems from the comments that I am seeing, is they see Flash as being a competing platform for Apple (they did do QuickTime for gosh sake with Flash Tracks). If QuickTime can/could play older Flash player files or imported and converted to QuickTime at least , why couldn't they also expand QuickTime to playback current SWF File).. Something isn't making sense here, especially the performance questions..
Security concerns could be worked around by whoever does the implementation..
I find this all politics and not good for end users.. My vote is for GNASH.. Get both Steve and Adobe out of the equation.
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