Adobe Systems Inc. faces a challenge in creating a version of its Flash video software for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen said.Last year, Steve Jobs said that Flash was too slow for the iPhone, and that "Flash Lite" wasn't capable enough. Apple wants Adobe to write a new version of Flash specifically for the iPhone.
“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
It's unclear how successful this collaboration will be, or when/if Flash will ever come to the iPhone. One should never discount Apple, I suppose, but it seems ridiculous to put significant effort into tooling an application for a single handset, even one as popular as the iPhone.
Hopefully the "new" version of Flash will be useful for more than just iPhone.
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