Adobe Flash Coming to iPhones at Last

Apple is, at long last, acceding to the wishes of a great many iPhone users and will allow Adobe to release a version of Flash for this device.

A Flash player is on virtually all desktop PCs, but has only been slowly creeping onto smartphones. Devices without it aren't be able to easily view many web sites, as these depend on Flash for navigation. In addition, popular sites like Hulu, Fox on Demand, and NBC.com require a high-performance Flash player to view their videos.

Adobe has been trying to get Flash support on the iPhone since before the device was released, but Apple has resisted. Last year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that this Web-based multimedia system wouldn't perform well on its smartphone or the iPod touch.

But Apple has relented, and asked Adobe to create a version of the Flash player for the iPhone.

"It's a hard technical challenge, and that's part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating," Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Bloomberg. "The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver."

When this software will be released is not known.

Via AppleInsider

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