Apple iPhone & Flash

Question

Hi everyone,
It seems as if the iPhone features the flash player within
Safari.
The page www.fandango.com is being used as a demo on the
device in Apple's
web site and this page has a few Flash banners.
They don't seem to be animated on the demo though.
Now, I wouldn't see why apple wouldn't include Flash within
Safari
considering the dependancy many web site currently have on
flash.
Now, this probable means that we will be able to build some
apps for the
iPhone through Safari in full screen and with Flash Player 8
or 9 hopefully.
Yeehaaaa !!
Can we also develop widgets for it, or those available are
only apple's.
Bruno

Answer 1

But that makes you wonder why would Apple bother PDFing the
pages when it's
actually easier to just have the Flash player built-in and
run the pages as
they are ? Unless of course their zoom-unzoom features
requires it.
Another reason for Apple not to include the flash player is
the fact that
they wanted to keep the project secret for as long as
possible.
Collaborating with Adobe on this would probably have led to
some sort of
leaks.
So maybe Apple will include Flash in the coming months.
Now, Apple has never really been behind Flash. Look at their
web site, if I
recall properly, the only time they have used Flash on their
site is for the
video pro apps 2 years ago. It was animations on the top of
the pages with
graphics showing the capabilities of Motion, or Soudtrack ...
etc.
Since then, they have replace everything with Quicktime.
I still remember the very first iPod in their home page
spinning in
Quicktime with an incredibbly slow loading time, when the
same animation in
Flash would have been loaded twice as fast. Same today with
the iPhone.
Flash is a competitor to Quicktime to them. They have taken
ages to upgrade
the built in flash support in QT from version 5 to 6 ... and
we are now in
version 9 for PCs.
And the widgets !
How can you miss on the Flash Actionscript bandwagon on this
one, unless you
really don't want this technology in your system ?
No, I am getting really pessimistic about all this.
But we'll see. Time will tell.
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> The reason that the banners are not animated is that
they are probably
> showing
> the JPG or GIF backup banners. Also, my hunch is that
Safari is taking a
> snapshot of the pages and letting the user essentially
scroll/enlarge a
> dynamic
> PDF.
>
> Lastly, widgets are made with javascript/dhtml.
>
> I wish Apple would include Flash, but think about it
from a business
> perspective. That opens the door to FREE games/videos/
etc. whereas Apple
> wants
> those things bought via iTunes. It hurts to think about.
>