{"id":8226,"date":"2009-10-05T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/smartphones_get_flash_not_iphone.html"},"modified":"2009-10-05T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T13:39:25","slug":"smartphones-get-flash-not-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/smartphones-get-flash-not-iphone.html","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones Get Flash. Not iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent event I spoke with an ex-Adobe exec who blamed Apple for Flash not being available on the iPhone. The lack of Flash support on this device is the real Apple tax as I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/iphone-flash-support-the-real-apple-tax.html\">pointed out<\/a> a while back. Now, Adobe has announced it will have Flash available for just about every smartphone on the market save Apple. David Coursey of PC World had this to <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/news\/pcworld\/20091005\/tc_pcworld\/adobeflashcomingtomajorsmartphonebrandslessone\">say<\/a> on the matter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">The unwillingness of Apple to play well with others should not be considered more than a momentary setback. While Apple&#8217;s QuickTime competes with Flash, that is not likely to keep the Adobe technology off the iPhone for long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">It should not surprise anyone to see Apple announce its support for Flash 10.1 on the iPhone either at its anticipated pre-holiday announcement of new desktops or in early 2010. The delay should not result in any significant disadvantage for Apple or its iPhone customers.<\/p>\n<p>I hope he is right but based on past <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/iphone-flash-support-the-real-apple-tax.html\">research<\/a> it seems Apple is in no rush to help Adobe. I hope it&#8217;s just a matter of priorities because without Flash, you don&#8217;t have true internet access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent event I spoke with an ex-Adobe exec who blamed Apple for Flash not being available on the iPhone. The lack of Flash support on this device is the real Apple tax as I pointed out a while back. Now, Adobe has announced it will have Flash available for just about every smartphone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,171,181,1,160,162,196,199,213,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}