Do not hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to have Flash: Apple's Terms of Service Agreement prohibits it.
Although Adobe is working on a version of its popular player Flash for iPhone, Apple is unlikely to allow it to appear in the App Store, no matter how much customers want it.
"I am quite skeptical that Flash can be applied in a way that does not violate the 'Terms of Service Agreement for Developers'," said Bart Decrem, CEO. (Chief Executive Officer; Executive Director) from Tapulous, developer of the popular iPhone game Tap Tap Revenge.
Adobe Flash is the popular platform for displaying interactive graphics, animations, and multimedia within a browser. According to Adobe, 98% of computers today support Flash, which has led to his widespread use by web developers. Adobe in a recent announcement said that it was working on a version of Flash for Windows Mobile, it has led to speculate that a version for the iPhone. But those who speculated will wait in vain, if we rely on the TOS (Terms Of Service) Apple and the company's history of tightly controlling applications for its smartphone platform.
Allow Flash - what is a development platform in itself - seems to be too dangerous for Apple, a company that enjoys practicing a total command over your hardware and software that runs on the. Flash has evolved from being a mere animation player into a multimedia platform capable of running applications by itself.. This means that Flash opens a new door for developers of applications for market your own software for iPhone: Just by programming them in Flash and putting them on a web page. Thus, Flash would divert some of the business from the App Store, and would allow publishers to distribute music, videos and movies to enter direct competition with the iTunes Store.
Apple is well aware of this, which is why the company wrote a clause for developers in its "Terms of Service Agreement", which prohibits the appearance of Flash on the iPhone: "An application may not install or launch other executable code by itself, including, through the use of the plug-in architecture, calling others frameworks, other APIs or any other kind, ”says clause 3.3.2 of the iPhone SDK agreement, which was recently published in Wikileaks.
This can be a big disappointment For iPhone owners, the lack of Flash support on the iPhone has been a constant complaint since its inception. Not having Flash means that the iPhone's browser is unable to display a large part of the Internet. For example, free Flash games are not supported, videos on the popular Hulu movie and TV website cannot be played, and lWebsites that use Flash for content or navigation do not work on the iPhone.
It is not surprising that Adobe express reluctance about the prospects of Flash for the iPhone. The company on Monday showed off a version of Flash for Windows Mobile phones. All that Michele Turnerm, Adobe's chief product officer, said about the iPhone was, "We're working on Flash for the iPhone, but it's up to Apple."
Adam Dann, CEO of Nullriver, agrees that Flash takes some control away from Apple. Manzana eventually ha Nullriver's request to include NetShare, because it violates the AT&T Terms of Service Agreement, turning the iPhone into a wireless modem. If Apple presents Flash for iPhone, Nullriver may schedule a Flash NetShare version, repeating said violation, Dann said.
Dann added that the only way Flash could appear on the iPhone is if Adobe offered an extremely lightweight version of the software. However, even if there is a "Flash Lite" for the iPhone, owners would still not have a true Flash experience.
In addition to subtracting Apple's control over software. Flash would introduce a bunch of other potential headaches. Flash applications could decrease battery life, subtract graphics processing power to unity, excessive use of memory: security risks. Apple has yet to deal with the many complaints of customers on the iPhone, the last thing you need is to add Flash to the heap.
In August, Britain's Advertising Standards Directorate withdrawal iPhone advertising because the ad said, "All the internet is on the iPhone." The lack of Flash and Java on the iPhone was enough for the ad to be considered misleading advertising. And it seems that Apple will not publish this announcement again.
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I now understand Apple's reluctance to include Flash. It's like opening a door to a rival platform in your own home.
It will fall if not official, it will be by cydia and installer it just has to be finished and that it leaks on the internet ...
I say, no?
The truth is that I do not see it as necessary as they put it, navigation from an iPhone can never be equal to a computer, I use my iPhone 3g to navigate and consult specific things not to spend 3 hours in a forum or download music or nothing like that, asike for me Adobe flash is not necessary if you believe it and as they have commented they put it in the «other stores» for luxury that there is nothing to follow as we are that of all the mobiles that I have had this is the better without hesitation, greetings
Noo how the flash is very important and a phone like the iphone will not have flashh
With flash we could access all kinds of YouTube-like websites, as well as being able to watch series or movies online without having to download them ...
The reason why, I have never given Microsoft a penny, and I do everything with their Software, nothing slows me down, I can do EVERYTHING (except Xbox360, of course). Apple, well ... for any stupidity if they charged me ... in fact, they have robbed me, because I was stupid enough, that before Jaillbreaking my iPhone I bought some applications, stupid, of which they are covered. Microsoft: more service, and they have never charged me anything Apple: Bad service and you have to pay - eh ... and the iPhone hangs 🙂
Sorry, at the beginning of the previous message, I put "the reason why I do not give money to Microsoft", when I meant that without giving money, without ever having been charged (for having hacked ..., which obviously, before I pay for a windows than for a very capable Mac, who only look at the fucking money). Let's see, to wait two years of fucking contract, with the Iphone, to be able to buy another mobile in conditions with flash and others ... with Windows Mobile
Well, at least I can see several pages on my iphone that need to have flash installed and I can't make 100% use of them. I join Jorge's comment, they just need to finish it and filter it over the internet and then it will be filtered to intaller cydia or else, and I imagine that it will be possible to add it with WinSCP3
Let's see it is only my opinion I certainly do not start to watch a movie on the iPhone for that I have my television or my computer, any one needs some things or others I of course I see something secondary, worse of course that if for me it was possible that they put it since the more possibilities our iphone has, then better than better, greetings to all
Someone has said that if it is not done in one way ... it will be done in another, but for the manipulated technology, there is nothing impossible, and I would not miss anything that in a few months we will be capturing the hacked digital satellite with the iPhone , so rest assured that everything arrives.