Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Has Adobe Given up on Flash for iPhone?
Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad)" @ 10:00 AM
"Adobe is basically saying they've given up on Apple's iPhoneOS products. Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, Mike Chambers lays out the bad news for Flash developers who'd want an easy way to port their apps to iPhone."
According to Weintraub "While CS5 will still export for the current iPhone, they are warning developers that Apple will probably pull their '100+ apps already built in Flash' from the App Store at some point in the future and, most importantly, Adobe have suspended all investments in Flash CS5's iPhone App export functionality."
He also makes the interesting point that while Adobe is excited about Android, is Google all that excited about Flash since they took YouTube to H.264-encoded MP4s and it wasn't because they loved Flash. Is this just the latest salvo in the war with Apple or do you think they are washing their hands of the whole mess?
