Why Apple Will Never Permit Adobe Flash on the iPhone
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blog.wired.com — Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms of service agreement prohibits it. Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset's App ...
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Video of Adobe Flash 10 running on Android T-Mobile G1 Google Phone
I4U News — ... News Video of Adobe Flash 10 running on Android T-Mobile G1 Google Phone Adobe showed at the Adobe MAX 2008 developer conference Flash 10 running on Android. See a video of full flash running on the T-Mobile G1 below. The Apple iPhone might never get Adobe Flash because it would impact Apple's software control over the iPhone. See this new Wired article about this topic. This is a real disadvantage for the iPhone as Flash is very popular on the web especially for video playback and online games. When the Flash Player 10 will be released on the Android OS is not known ...

Flash 10 coming for almost every smartphone except iPhone
jkOnTheRun — ... Apple on the other hand seems to be saying "no Flash for you!" and although Adobe indicated they are working on a version of Flash for the iPhone it is unlikely we will ever see it come to the swipe screen. Wired opines that Apple cannot let Flash appear on the iPhone because it is a platform for developers and as such takes the user experience out of Apple's hands.  We know they hate that and Wired feels they hate it enough to never let it happen.  They point out that even the iPhone developer's SDK prohibits Flash from appearing in the App Store: ...

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