Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, confirms to Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland recently that a Flash player for the iPhone won’t be coming anytime soon. We all know Steve Jobs doesn’t think highly of the player when it comes to its viability for the iPhone and Narayen has expressed that there are some serious technical hurdles to overcome before we can enjoy Flash goodness on one of the most popular mobile devices in the history of mankind.
Having owned an iPhone since day one, I’ve always been frustrated at the lack of the Flash player on the device since it’s the actual web that you’re surfing with Safari and not a dumbed down version. A lot of sites broke on the iPhone because they were either full-flash sites or utilized Flash splash pages. Of course, these sites should all have HTML alternatives as fail-safes but the reality is that the majority don’t for whatever reason.
One good thing that Narayen highlights though is that both Adobe and Apple are working together on a solution. Should they prove successful in their efforts, it won’t be a moment too soon…:)
