Flash is a very popular web plug-in that is used to deliver animation and video content on the web. Apple's iPhone however has notably not supported Flash since its launch. Apparently allowing Flash on iPhone would just be too dangerous for a company like Apple that enjoys exerting total dominance over its hardware and the software that runs on it. This could come as major disappointment to iPhone owners, as the lack of Flash support has been a paramount complaint about this revolutionary smartphone since its release.
This scenario is about to change when Adobe's Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen has revealed that Adobe is working with Apple on bringing Flash support to the iPhone.
"It's a hard technical challenge, and that's part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating", Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.
A year ago this idea generated little interest for Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs. He remained skeptical with the nature of Flash which obviously resource-hogging for small processors and low memory smartphone. A slimmed down version or the Flash Lite seems to be the best solution for iPhone but might not work as expected by iPhone's users.
The reason behind this development is not clear but it might be related to the announcement of Adobe in last November about the collaboration with ARM to create an optimized implementation of Flash specifically for the ARM11 family of processors. Apple probably envisages the benefit that it could reap since iPhone processor is based on those processors architecture.
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