According to a report by CNN, Adobe is working to bring Flash to the iPhone.
Chief Executive Shantanu
Narayen is quoted as saying:
"We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are
committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone. We have evaluated (
the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player
ourselves."
Narayen goes on to say that he plans to distribute Flash through the iTunes Store along with the other iPhone apps.
This coincides with Sun Microsystems claiming that they will be bringing Java to the iPhone when they got their hands on the iPhone SDK a couple of weeks ago.
Exactly HOW these two companies will pull this off is beyond me. Seems like they didn't read through exactly what the SDK says developers can and CANNOT do!
The iPhone SDK terms
explicitly state that "No interpreted code may be downloaded and used
in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by
Apple's Published APIs and builtin interpreter(s)".
Either they have access to some API other than what is offered to common developers or they are both "blowing a lot of smoke".
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