Here’s how the story goes: many, many years ago there was this really cool video editing tool called Adobe After Effects. At the same time there was this really, really cool operating system called Mac OS X. All good.
The only problem: After Effects didn’t work on OS X, so Mr. Stevie Jobs went to Mr. Adobe CEO and said: Dude, c’mon, make it work. And Mr. Adobe CEO said: neah, you only sell a few thousand computers per year, it’s not worth it. So Stevie went on and built Final Cut and promised Adobe’s CEO that he’ll make it back.
Therefore, no flash on the iPhone, no flash on the iPad, no flash-on-any-freaking-beautiful-device-ever-built-by-Apple. Ever.
And that’s how the story goes
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Ana
January 28th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Actually they say Adobe Flash CS5 “will include a Packager for iPhone that will let you publish ActionScript 3 projects to run as native applications for iPhone. These applications can be delivered to iPhone users through the Apple App Store”.
But yes, it seems that Apple and Adobe don’t really see eye to eye, and even if there are Adobe apps running on Mac OS X, they crash a lot, and are not exactly optimized.
Claudiu C
January 28th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
si-am mai auzit ca in curand vor trece toti pe HTML 5 unde nu mai e nevoie de flash, poate si de aceea nu vom avea flash pe iPad si iPhone
Florin Matincă
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:54 am
HTML5 will be the way …