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March 5, 2008 12:00 AM PST

Jobs: "You'll see a lot of iPhone apps this Summer"; no Flash anytime soon

by Ben Wilson
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At an annual shareholder's meeting today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs made two noteworthy comments regarding the iPhone. To be succinct:

  • Jobs said "You'll see a lot of apps out there this summer," referring to native applications born out of the iPhone software developers' kit (SDK) due to be discussed at a special event this Thursday. We don't know if these means Jobs thinks it will take a few months for developers to start cranking out applications with an SDK that's released soon, or if it indicates that the SDK won't be in developers' hands until Summer. We'll have to wait until Thursday to find out.
  • Adobe Flash won't be coming to the iPhone anytime soon. Jobs said the full-blown version of Flash would perform poorly on the iPhone, and Flash Lite isn't the spirit of the iPhone's full internet experience. In mid-February we noted: flash performance and usage is abysmal on current mobile devices that support playback. With regard to performance, mobile device processors ? including the iPhone?s ? simply aren?t fast enough to handle most Flash-laden sites. Flash Lite, the scaled down standard designed specifically for mobile devices, is even too much for most devices, and isn?t widely used.

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by Robb1068 March 5, 2008 9:04 AM PST
Too bad about Flash... I don't care that much about Flash video, but you do run into Flash based websites from time to time.
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by flurffmeister March 5, 2008 11:10 AM PST
That, plus they have to work on the UI conventions of how you'd mouse-over or click-and-drag in flash on an iPhone anyway. It'll be iPhone 2 or so by the time they come up with all that...
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