IPhone and multi-touch

Question

I assume everyone has been following the iPhone announcement
today:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/
I also am assuming that since it runs OS X, we can download
Flash 8 & 9
desktops apps (and even created standalone). Correct?
But what we really need is to be able to tap into the
multi-touch interface:
1. stretching and zooming photography
2. zooming and exploring maps
3. getting all one's fingers into intereractive paint and
draw tools, etc.
I used a multi-touch at SIGGRAPH Boston 2006
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
) and it is very very cool.
Is Adobe partnering with Apple to produce special fscommands
for a iPhone
centric version of Flash?
[I have a huge load of apps and ideas, as well as a startup
company if Adobe
will pursue this!]
Dr. Yechezkal Gutfreund - Adobe ACE for Mobile Devices

Answer 1

Mark, right on.
It would be a logical platform for Flash given some of its
core
philosophy in its design. However, the details about OSX and
Safari
support are still far too vague as you point out below.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least, if they modified "OSX"
to "OSX
Mobile" as they move closer to deployment ... but, perhaps
all they need
is a kernel to technically call it "OSX"? Not sure.
Speaking of which ... I think we are forgetting too, how
stable Symbian
and other mobile device centric OSes and platforms are. How
long have
they been working at "OSX for the iPhone", one year? perhaps
two? Looks
impressive in the demo ... but it's only a demo. How much was
"off the
cuff" and not stagged, we have no way of knowing ...
My point being, a SBOD ("spinning ball of death") on a mobile
device
might equate to a death sentence (well, for a first time user
iPhone
experiences), *even* with all the great UI and features
they've added.
Here's hoping they do some exhaustive device and field
testing before
rollout later this year ... in order to limi the amount of
software
and/or firmware updates they have to do later on (we've seen
that on the
initial IPods to be sure) ...
All in all, I'm hopeful, given Apple's track record with
previous
desktop versions of OSX and delivering stable releases (well
more
reliable and complete than say, Microsoft), they'll have
something worth
putting on the iPhone come end of year. Time will tell.
-sj
mark.y wrote:
> _xmouse1, _ymouse1, _xmouse2, _ymouse2, ... It will have
to happen someday!
>
> I don't think much is clear yet regarding Flash on
iPhone. iPhone OS X may not
> be the same as Mac OS X (e.g., Windows Mobile). iPhone
Safari may not be the
> same as Mac Safari (e.g., Nokia Safari). But it looks
like a sweeeet platform
> for interactive Flash!
>