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No Flash?

Mar 4, 2008 11:36PM PST

OK im just wondering what paoples thoughts are about NO FLASH ON THE iPHONE. I mean come on Apple, its been over a year since the press release of the iPhone, I want the REAL Internet. Just wondering what people thought and if Apple has a good excuse. I dont think they do, THEY HAVE HAD OVER A YEAR, at least make something that emulates flash. Just wondering what people thought?

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For me a non-issue.
Mar 5, 2008 12:04AM PST
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You might want to check this out
Mar 5, 2008 2:26AM PST

Steve Jobs at the Apple Shareholders meeting.

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If you need it, go make it
Mar 6, 2008 10:50AM PST

Take a look at the SDK. You can get the beta version free. Should you really need or want Flash, go grab a job at Adobe and make it Grin. LOL. The way I see it, you already have a portion of YouTube on there at your fingertips, you have the iTMS, you can stream video to it with things like that BBC player and others... Or you could make it easy and use iTunes for loading videos to it, like Bob said. Anything in the QuickTime format is easily processed and able to played in Safari should you encounter a QT movie. That said, what good is flash when a great deal of alternatives are at the front door?
I see the convenience of it, but really, you can get around it. QuickTime has plugins to play multiple different files, including flash files I believe, so if Apple decided to port some of those to the iPhone/iPod version of QT, you'd be set. But as it says above, Steve will not be putting it on there at the moment.
Being an iPod Touch owner, I can say that in some occasions, I'd like to have it, but as it only has Wi-Fi, I only use the web where I can, so it does not inconvenience me much. Plus iPods are primarily for music, so that's why I use it. We may see some incarnation of Flash with the introduction of the imminent 3G iPhone, but we may not know when that will be released. Some speculate June will hold all the answers by the looks of it. Wouldn't surprise me if a 3G update came out alongside the software update release and the WWDC. That would make sense since if it only took a couple of weeks to create some apps for the platform, you'd think they could start releasing some of them within the next month.

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Better
Mar 8, 2008 11:04AM PST

Way better than i expected. I posted this before the offical release of the sdk. I was glad with what came and i guess that i can live without flash. They did put a lot of cool new features on it. Also, now that java will be on it, I'm pretty content. Not much to complain about. I just want those apps.

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We shall see
Mar 8, 2008 1:15PM PST

I saw something that said that Apple will not allow applications to run in the background and stuff. Here is one site suggesting it. I'm pretty sure they'll get it on there though. How can you turn Java down? Grin It'll all pan out well I'm sure. If the App Store is supposed to be more for the consumers and developers, allowing good stuff like Java and AIM to be there would be a good indication of that statement. It would be very, very good in my opinion Happy.

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Flash
Mar 13, 2008 5:47PM PDT

Flash is such a piece of cr4p ever since Adobe bought out Macromedia, that I refuse to use it unless necessary. If it weren't for my slight addiction to YouTube, I'd not install flash on any of my machines. Adobe are an epic fail and before they bought out Macromedia everything was fine. I'm thinking by not including flash on the iPhone, Apple are just being sensible. With Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight I hope Flash gets wiped out and pissed all over.