Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:18 PM
by
loufranco
Steve Jobs says no Flash on iPhone
I'm not 100% sure how Steve Jobs can stop Flash on the iPhone once there's an SDK, but this is a little surprising:
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone won't be using Adobe
Systems' Inc.'s popular Flash media player any time soon, saying the
technology doesn't meet his company's performance standards for video.
Speaking at a shareholder meeting in Cupertino, Calif. on Tuesday,
Jobs said the version of Flash formatted to personal computers is too
slow on the iPhone while the mobile version of the media player is "is
not capable of being used with the web," according to reports from Dow
Jones and technology website C-Net.
Jobs said "middle ground" was needed before the iPhone would adopt Flash.
The comments come a day before Apple is set to introduce the
company's plan for iPhone SDK, the software developers kit which will
allow third-party developers to create applications that can work in
conjunction with the popular handheld device.