Apple SilverFlash? … Why I Think Apple is Building a Flash/SilverLight Competitor - iPhriends.com
Fact: Apple does not support Flash on the iPhone.
Walt Mossberg, WSJ Tech Writer, stated this on his blog on July 5, 2007:
“At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple of months.”
Given today is April 22, 2008, I don’t plan to see Flash on the iPhone anytime soon, including the SDK launch this Summer.
Despite Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, stating during an earnings call that Adobe “will work with Apple” to make sure that Flash applications can run on the iPhone.
To the my knowledge, Apple has made no effort to bring the “True Web” to the iPhone.
Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, has said in the past that the PC version of Flash “performs too slow to be useful,” and that Flash Lite “is not capable of being used with the Web.”
So this leads me to two conclusions:
A) Flash just won’t work on the iPhone.
B) Flash is not supported by Apple for another reason.
Fiction: Apple is building its own Flash (SilverLight) Competitor.
Seeing the success of Apple’s Safari browser on the Mac, iPhone, and the PC (even if they snuck it in with an update) it is obvious they want to Apple-fy the Web experience given their recent patent to, “improve the online shopping atmosphere” which can feel “sterile and isolating.”
The best way for Apple to provide a rich web experience, like they have done with Leopard’s fluid graphics and animation, is by developing a rich Internet application to extend the “Art of Apple” into the browser. Will Apple SilverFlash become a reality and re-define the Web experience? I happen to think so…
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
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