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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?