Next iPhone generation will support Flash

Apple will introduce built-in support for Adobe Flash on the iPhone in the next couple of months, according to the article of the Questions About Apple’s iPhone from The Wall Street Journal :

If the iPhone’s Web browser is so good, why can’t it play video on Web sites I visit?

At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple of months. However, a separate program included on the iPhone can play a limited selection of videos from YouTube, and the phone can play videos you purchase from Apple’s iTunes store, and certain videos you create yourself.

Comments

[Brett Walker]

Mossberg and the WSJ have rumored that a software update will bring support for Flash in a couple months, however your title is a bit misleading, as it suggests that Flash wouldn't come until the iPhone 2.0. Hopefully, the former is the case and we will be rocking the Flash on iPhone 1.0.

[barry.b]

I wonder why it wasn't included in the first place?
- too hard at the time and the iPhone was being rushed out the door? (Adobe couldn't provide help?)
- Apple being "cute" with platform politics and wanting to see what the market will do - now they're being pressured into adding Flash support?
- something else?

just curious...

[jim]

Obviously is a YouTube+Apple deal. If they enable the plugins, there will be no deal with youtube. Remember there's a youtube button that you can click on the main menu of iphone to watch video. If you can browse to watch youtube videos on website, why youtube bother to make a deal with them in the first place? make sense? just my 2 cents thot. :)

[Andrew Paul Simmons]

Thanks for the update. I can't wait to get my apps on my iPhone.