Flash Player Download Center for iPhone
Yesterday a number of blogs started to discuss the content on the Flash Player download center for iPhone users. There have been some questions about the site, so I want to provide a little background on the page.
We currently get nearly three million visitors to this page each month from people who are looking for the Flash Player for their iPhone or iPod touch, many of whom were leaving the download center believing that either (1) Adobe didn't want Flash on the iPhone or (2) the iPhone was somehow technically incapable of playing Flash content. Since neither of those is true, we are now explaining to those visitors that Apple holds the key in getting Flash Player onto the device.
The language was compact and to the point both because of the constraints of the page (this is displayed only to the iPhone) and the audience (consumers who are looking for the Flash Player aren't interested in reading a long piece of text). I also want to mention that Apple and Adobe have a strong partnership in many areas, but, Apple has not provided the level of support required to deliver the Flash Player to the iPhone. Nearly every other industry player is working with us in getting Flash technology onto their devices and platforms. These partners are making critical, high value investments in delivering Flash Player on mobile devices, on netbooks, and in the digital home.
To be clear, Adobe wants to make Flash Player 10.1 available for the iPhone and with Apple's support we're ready to do the work -- just as we and our partners are doing for Blackberry, Palm webOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and many other platforms to give users uncompromised access to the web.
November 4, 2009
Templarian writes:
Very well explained. I believe most of us got the idea what you were doing. It's Apples fault and there's no reason for people to think you are singling out a device.
Luckily Flash on the webOS and the other devices looks pretty solid, so hopefully it just pulls users to the other "better" platforms.
November 4, 2009
https://me.yahoo.com/a/Uv4i64wRwMGUCfkvEBy1qUCkw2R8#04d9c writes:
So do you see this as never happening? Are there talks right now to get it done or has the decision been made that it won't be on the iPhone? Why so vague with the the reasons iPhone does not have flash player 10.1? Adobe wants the iPhone to have flash player, so you leave us to assume Apple does not want the iPhone to have flash. Is this accurate?
Consumers are very interested in this topic since there has been no information on the subject in a long time. Can you be more specific as to the reasons Apple and Adobe can't come together?
November 4, 2009
Templarian writes:
I think it's the fact that any form of games / movies / entertainment could be streamed through the browser. This in essence hurts Apples bottom line, and as we have all have seen many times over Apple doesn't like when things get in the way of it and it's consumers.
Apple's devices have no multi-tasking ability so I can't think of another reason why they would block it, sure it's not a tegra based device, but it should be able to handle Flash pretty well. The Pre has it and from the videos and friends that went to Max this year it can handle multiple instances (some frozen in other cards, but ram wise it handles it).
It will be interesting to see how Apple tries to spin this as all the other devices get it. This appears to be more of a waiting game.
November 9, 2009
Ray writes:
You know what just like apple told us when we got the new!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!3G!!!!!!!! That we will be able to upgrade our phones to some things that we didn't have befor on the iPhone and we were all waiting for the upgrades and came out with a hole new iPhone with all the upgades on it. Upgrades that we couldn't download on our 3G like they told us. They want us to spend as much money on there product as we can. Don't be mad when they tell us that a new Iphone is comming out, a new one that's now flash ready. I tell you what I won't buy it. And you shouldn't. They've been able to let us have flash player. Apple just wants more money. Cheating the people that made them so successful.