Comments on: Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones

Powerful new mobile phones will get a full-fledged Flash Player 10 from the company, not just the Lite version. But Flash on the iPhone is still an idea left out in the cold.

[Mark_Anderson]

Nice. I have an Omnia so this is a welcome addition.

I'm sure the iPhone will get Flash soon too.

[AppleSuxLeo]

No Flash for iPhony...Steve won`t let you have it. Kupertino Kool-Aid lovers lose out again.

[john5540]

Righto! No Flash for iPhone because Kevin Lynch is a Bill Gates clone and will muck up everything.

[Perry_Clease]

No Flash for the iPhone is considered a safety feature. Now if we can just eradicate it from the rest of the web.

[kralimarko]

Apparently not having Flash, Java, Copy+Paste or ability to turn off auto-complete are all safety features made by the wise wizards at Apple who decided that the users don't have to overload their puny brains.

If it is so important to you to live in a "safe" world - well why don't you just stick with a landline phone and browse the web by sending manually http commands? Everything will be perfect for you then...

[stsuida]

well, don't forget we have the Quartz slash OpenGL layers in the OS already. When you use an app like Bloomberg for a few days, especially as a Flash developer myself (I just upgraded to CS4 Pro), you end up asking yourself why you'd want to chain yourself to Flash anyway? Between the already enormous pool of options I have in the OS' toolkit, and the complementary power in JS frameworks accessible through embedded web views, all weighed with the expectations of iPhone users, I just don't see the Flash benefit as a commercial developer. Lazy ports won't sell, cludgy bolt-on solutions won't fly, and I feel a little ripped off by Adobe when I compare what I can build with my free copy of Quartz Composer to what my many hundred dollar Flash IDE might offer.

[johnqh]

Please no Flash on iPhone. Battery killer (40 minutes).

[Mark_Anderson]

Rubbish.

It's no worse than any streaming download.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Apple needs to work on basics like SMS , memory slot , replaceable battery , better network. Touch is just a gimmick that wears off quickly. And their touch has no tactile feedback...oops !

[montex66]

A gimmick huh? Well I'm sure the people at RIM (the former top selling vendor of smartphones) will be happy to hear that. Oh what's that? You didn't know that Apple's iPhone is out selling all those precious Blackberries with their little keyboards? Well, the iPhone is just a gimmick. Keep telling yourself that.

[joetesta70]

Flash will be the iPhone's downfall. $teve Job$ will be forced to support it.

[Bizubrian]

Naaaah... not so... first off these other phones are chasing... WANTING to be as good as the iPhone.. secondly...i already HAVE Flash on my iPhone via an app... all these other phones will be chasing Steve Jobs for quite some time.. especially with BUTTONS.. Ewwwwww BUttons! LOL:) WOOOT STEVE JOBS FTW!

[buckyuk]

Dont worry flash will come soon to the iphone its only a matter of time.
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[clamburgler]

Turtleneck will have to give in and support flash eventually.

When Apple products do not have a specific feature or capability, the iSheep will drum out excuse after excuse as to why that feature is terrible. Once Apple products do get that feature, the fanboys will say how great it is.

No 3G on first gen iPhone... "we don't need 3G". When second gen got it, 3G became the greatest thing. Same goes for no SDK when it originally came out, but look how they cheer the apps now. There are many more examples which i won't get into.

[aaydogan]

Where is flash for the RIM platform? I'm sure that this will be another in a long series of horribly written, overly complex pieces of crap from Adobe. Whey don't they just sell out to Microsoft and just go away?

[Perry_Clease]

Youse guys don't get it! If there is no Flash on the iPhone then website designers will have to redo their pages so that they are not Flash centric. That, my friends, is a real good thing.

Hell most of the people clamoring for Flash on the iPhone are pundits, Flash developers, and blog trolls. It isn't most of us iPhone users.

[ballmerisanape]

exactly. the last thing I want is to see flash based noise on my iPod....especially flash ads.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Why is that Adobe-dweeb wearing girl`s glasses ? Do they only hire Clay Aikins types there ?

[MafiaPenguin]

IPHONE JUST GOT P3WNED BY THE G1!



Sorry if I like Google too much.

[malmedia]

I wonder why the PSP does not have Flash 10.