VentureBeat’s MG Siegler reported Monday that Apple may be pushing their “Push” notification system aside; in favor of allowing some background operations to run in the background on the iPhone. This rumor comes partly from MacRumors, but Siegler notes that he has heard whispers about this himself.

Most tech bloggers have said that barring background operations was a mistake and most likely would have to be revisited – Especially since the “Push” system was supposed to have been launched 5 months ago. Apple backtracked on releasing it to the public until they “got it right.” Steve Jobs and Apple have always aid that background ops. sucked up too much battery life and given the heavy web-surfing, video watching the iPhone allows, battery life was the reason for moving to this push notification software update.

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From AppleInsider, comes word that Apple and Adobe are teaming up to bring the much anticipated arrival of Flash to the iPhone:

“Once thought to be building Flash for the iPhone mostly on its own, Adobe has mentioned at the World Economic Forum that it’s not only continuing work on the animation plug-in but has teamed up with Apple to make it a reality,” Aidan Malley reports for AppleInsider

The biggest hurdle for Adobe has been coming up with an option “in the middle” that isn’t Flash and isn’t Flash-Lite. Jobs is mentioned in the article as having said the the desktop Flash is too heavy for the small processors on the iPhone and its low memory.

Last but not least there’s this nugget at the end:

And in the meantime, the cellphone maker has publicly advocated HTML 5 as a replacement and is collaborating with fellow browser developers Mozilla and Opera to perform many of the same functions of Flash but in a more universal and less resource-hungry standard.

I’ll have a much more detailed report coming up on this and the other issues that have been stumbling blocks for the iPhone; copy and paste anyone?

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