No Flash for the iPhone?
Okay so I’ve digested the keynotes about the iPhone, and I’m still unapologetically excited about this device. In fact probably even more so.
BUT I did notice when Steve Jobs browsed to the New York Times website using iPhones Safari there was a missing plugin icon (below), which I can only assume by the placement, was Flash.
Personally I can’t see Apple leaving The Flash player out, due to the sheer volume of web based Flash content out there, and the amount of effort Apple seem to have put into getting a fully functional web browser onto their device. But you can’t help get a bit nervous.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:29 am
[…] Seven months ago I got really excited about the iPhone, I still am just not as much. I watched the keynotes and and like most of us drooled over the idea of a phone that might actually work the way you would imagine it to. However I did notice something that put me off, even then, no Flash plugin icon. At the time I guessed as much as Mr Jobs seemed to dodge the question when asked directly stating that youtube would be available. Well a lot of time has passed, enough time to re-encode the whole of youtube to Quicktime anyway. And enough time for Adobes‘ Bill Perry to stand in a 12 hour line for his very own iPhone, before finding out the hard way that there’s no support for Flash. […]