Apple changes dev. agreement. Flash apps are a go
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- instrmntl0
No more fart apps. What a dick!
- CyBrain0
I guess this doesn't mean they'll allow some kind of Flash plugin for Safari on iOS. That's the infinitely huger issue than Flash-based apps. It's still a crippled browser without Flash.
I have a question for all the Flash-bashers. If you load a page with Flash that bogs down your phone, you can always shut it. Do you really want to be restricted from every instance of Flash on the web, no matter how simple, efficient and awesome it might be? Answering yes to that question must mean you think every example of Flash is bad. At least Jakob Nielson rated it at 99% bad.
- tOki0
This is probably just another trick. Apple is lulling you all into a false sense of security - Jobs won't lose face to anyone - remember that!
:P
- ukit0
Autokern INIT
- deathboy0
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- hotroddy0
Everyone remember this was Job's "Sixth, and most important reason" for not allowing flash on iphone?
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/tho…Makes me wonder how important the safari plug-in is to him now.
Android will force them to include very soon.- most definitely.. if they continue dropping like a brick in marketshare due to Android we will see Flash on iphone/ipad as wellBoz
- fyoucher10
Smart move on their part. Obviously it wasn't Jobs decision to do this. Apple has so many developers who want to develop on their platform on top of having many people who develop using their hardware/OS. Keeps teh folks happy, which is good PR. It's also obvious that they did this because of competition but who cares really.
I don't care too much for this though, since I don't really use Flash to create "apps". Once phones other than Apple can begin playing back Flash content with Flash Player decently (which is only a matter of time before the hardware becomes suitable for it), you can bet there will be a Flash plugin for the iPhone and all this will be in the past. HTML5 will still be here and will thrive, so will Flash. They'll both have their specific niches and live happily ever after.
- NONEIS0
Seriously surprised how many people here fail to understand that the IDE re-compiles AS3 as Objective C, it's not flash, it's a native iPhone app on the other end.
- yes... but probably not very effecient code....vaxorcist
- It worked just fine and I was using prerelease iPhone packager. Considering there are apps in Obj-c that run like crap. It's pretty greatBoz
- Agreed Boz – just because you write it in Objective C first, does not mean it is inherently efficient, performance is the result of a series of precautions and methodologies that have nothing to do with linking to an API.NONEIS
- series of precautions and methodologies that have nothing to do with linking to an API.NONEIS
- PonyBoy0
Rad.
- dMullins0
Let's all join guys and be hands, friends.
- Dodecahedron0
so to clarify for someone like myself who's not into this much...iphone still doesn't support flash right? its just apple will now allow it to be used to develop their apps...?
- If means developers can develop applications for iPhone using their own choice of tools.lukus_W
- *itlukus_W
- ok got it. flash still isn't supported on iphone thoughDodecahedron