That means Flash would open a new door for application developers to get their software onto the iPhone: Just code them in Flash and put them on a web page. Flash has evolved from being a mere animation player into a multimedia platform capable of running applications of its own. But the speculators may be waiting in vain, based on Apple's TOS and the company's history of tightly controlling applications for its smartphone platform.Īllowing Flash - which is a development platform of its own - would just be too dangerous for Apple, a company that enjoys exerting total dominance over its hardware and the software that runs on it. Adobe's recent announcement that it is working on a version of Flash for Windows Mobile has prompted speculation that an iPhone version might be coming soon.

According to Adobe, 98 percent of desktop computers currently support Flash, which has led to its widespread use by web developers. Flash is Adobe's highly popular platform for displaying interactive graphics, animations and multimedia within a browser.

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