It may have more to do with Apple maintaining a tight control on development 
issues relating to their products. Apple may be encouraging open source 
development vs Adobe's propriety schemes.

Vlad James

On 29/01/2010, at 8:14 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:

> 
> 
> On 28/01/2010, at 3:55 PM, Chris Griffiths wrote:
> 
>> By the way, does anyone know why we can't read flash on iphones or ipods? 
>> Does it have something to do with the relationship between apple and adobe. 
>> I mean, why can't we see Flash? Isn't an iphone and ipod a mini computer?
>> 
> 
> I'm sure the people close to the top a Apple, and the members of the iPhone 
> software development team know the reasons, but outside of that, we can only 
> speculate. I'm certain that it has something to do with performance issues, 
> battery life and any number of other associated reasons. I'm equally certain 
> that the whole situation regarding flash-like behaviour will change as the 
> web industry begins to adopt HTML5. In the meantime, you still have your 
> computer...



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