Comments on: Behind the Flash delay for iPhone: Pandora?

Apple's smartphone does not yet support the Adobe Systems technology, upon which the popular Music Genome Project service is reliant. Is there a connection?

[tudza]

Pandora won't work on iPhone?

Shot, it works on my little green OLPC.

[attitudevijay]

Cheap Shot.

If you think something like Pandora would influence a major decision like including flash on the iPhone, then you got to take a fresh look at the iPhone. Its bigger than that.

The post was intended to leverage the fact the people are searching for news on the iPhone. Please just don't write posts to get traffic. We expect better from CNet.

[shane--2008]

ummmm,

"The post was intended to leverage the fact the people are
searching for news on the iPhone. Please just don't write posts to
get traffic. We expect better from CNet."

we do?

what CNet do you generally read, and how can i get there?

[woobert]

coming soon...

baffled by the lack of an announcement from pandora... but we've
got pandora working on (jailbreaked) iphones... along with other
stuff like streaming all your library on the go...lastfm, seeqpod,
mp3tunes, lala, etc. it'll even play DRM'd movies and songs if you
bought them... still in alpha testing, but if you're interested, check
it out and send us an email to try the beta...

http://ootun.es/ipod/

[Giant Ginkgo]

Maybe there are better reasons...

I don?t see where Pandora can?t easily address this in at least two major different ways on the iPhone - First off, on today?s iPhone one can probably build an Ajax web application that uses Quicktime for streaming audio and video, using the same standards that Flash supports - H264 (MP4) and MP3. (Yeah, it?s not as simple as writing a little Adobe Flex app, but oh well...)

The better option would be to download the recently released SDK, and release a full Pandora client application in June. Since it is a streaming service, it isn?t going to have any storage problems, and it can utilize all of the advanced Audio Unit and Quicktime features that are available for it. It can easily sync back to the web, and everyone will benefit.

Now if Pandora writes this iPhone application, submits it to Apple for the App store, and gets turned down for some lame reason - then this ?story? would have more legs. But at this point, I really doubt that the upper management of Apple are keeping Flash off of the iPhone to spite Pandora. I don?t think they know OR care about it one way or the other.

I?m a Flex developer, but I can see why Apple doesn?t see Flash as being really ready for the iPhone - even ignoring the possible performance issues, there are bigger problems like UI integration (multi-touch, gestures, accelerometer, etc.) that need to be dealt with. Is Adobe going to provide a truly iPhone centric version of Flash, that provides new features that weren?t work on other platforms?

If you look at the iPhone?s SDK, which uses many of the same technologies as OSX on the desktop, notice how the Macintosh version of Interface Builder isn?t supported. I bet a lot of lazy Mac developers would LOVE to be able to just push a single button and have their current programs running on the iPhone. But it can?t (or shouldn?t) be done because of the differences between a desktop machine and a touch-based phone.