Cellphones Getting Flash 10 in 2010 – Except iPhone
Hey Apple fanboys, here’s another reason your oh-so-pretty iPhones suck. At the GSMA Mobile World Congress today, Adobe announced that Flash Player 10 would come to most smartphones in 2010. That includes handsets running Symbian, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, and Palm webOS.
Flash Player 10 is the browser plugin powering many of the Web’s richest multimedia experiences, from Flickr slideshows to YouTube videos. Forty percent of all smartphones already ship with Flash Lite; Flash 10 would put the full monty in your pocket.
What’s not on the list of phones getting Flash 10 in 2010? The Apple iPhone.
“We would love to see it on the iPhone, too,” said Anup Murarka, director of Technology Strategy and Partner Development for Adobe. “But it’s Apple’s decision on when and how they support any new technology. So we will continue to work on it.”
Read that again: “it’s Apple’s decision on when and how they support any new technology.” As usual, the bottleneck is at Apple.
Of course, Apple cultists have grown so attached to their closed ecosystem that they will fight to defend it. Expect them to bash Flash in retaliation.
(Via Marguerite Reardon. Chart via Teniescu.)
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Google Android for me! :p
Waiting for the Motorolla Android release… probably next year.
Open source FTW!
It’s no loss for Adobe that the iPhone can’t run Flash. They’ll just have to leave Apple start making phones that can. Do I feel sorry for Apple. That has got to be a big kick on the bullocks.
I don’t feel sorry for Apple. Based on Adobe’s statement, it seems Apple is to blame for the iPhone’s lack of Flash.
I do feel sorry for Apple users. The sane ones will be left without Flash. The crazy ones will be deluded enough to actually diss Flash.
That should not happen. Flash contributed so much to how interactive content should be. And it’s making big money and popularity. This sounds funny but Apple should try using Silverlight. LOL.
theres an add for that haha thats what iphone gets for being greedy with stuff haa!
Indeed. The problem with walled gardens is that good stuff can’t get in.