iPhone yes - Flash no?

No Flash On The IPhone? Say It Isn’t So!

Folks were thrown off by Apple’s latest iPhone Ad depicting the full featured Internet, on a mobile device. Hearing the latest report from Macrumors, Apple seems to contradict itself. How can you have the full Internet but not support Flash? Does Apple’s YouTube deal have anything to do with this?

It was speculated in January that Apple would offer Flash for iPhone, but learning that it’s support will be dropped brings up some issues. This isn’t the full Internet Steve Jobs was advertising, it’s more like the watered down version. However, Apple did strike a recent deal with Google to bring YouTube to AppleTV, this could be done for the iPhone as well.

Sure we’ll get better quality and that’s what we need for AppleTV, high quality video, but going through the entire process of converting and creating a custom catalog for us? Jobs must have something else in store and if you haven’t got the hint yet, think about it. No Flash, H.264 videos, limited content. Duh, Apple wants you to buy videos for your iPhone from iTunes! Appease some of us by offering a limited catalog, but increase it’s quality to suit us and leave us wanting more. Indirectly limiting content from one of the biggest Video sharing sites in the world already brought up some red flags.

I’m no developer but how hard would it be for Apple to get flash working on the iPhone? It already runs Mac OS X. Needless to say Apple’s excuse to H.264 everything in order to improve video quality is cutting off access to more widespread content.

Hm, I'm not sure. But I do feel this is an IMPORTANT component. How can you skip out on Flash? It's become the standard for the Net.

Seems that the buzz is that Apple's agreement with YouTube (Google) excluded using Flash content. Not sure on all the nitty gritty of the deal but that's what it boiled down to.

I agree with you about the Flash, such an integral part of the internet nowadays that most thought including it would be a no brainer. But who knows, once the modders get their hands on their own iPhones, the sky might be the limit and where there's a will there's a way (or maybe not...).