Comments on: Why Steve Jobs will Never put Adobe Flash on iPhone OS Devices http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/ Insights on the Mobile Ecosystem Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:59:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: In Hindsight: What Went Wrong with Adobe Flash in Mobile « Francisco Kattan http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-453 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:04:07 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-453 [...] Sure, Apple could have still adopted the Flash Platform in 2010, but it was not in the company’s best interest at that time. In the end, Apple decided not to adopt the Flash Platform because Flash would limit its ability to differentiate its devices. Apple marketing was focused on the broad availability of apps that worked best on iOS. To support such positioning, Apple needed developers to target the latest set of proprietary APIs (accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, etc.) rather than write to a higher level cross-device platform that would deliver undifferentiated experiences across Apple and non-Apple devices.  This is why Apple decided to block Flash from iOS (for more on this see: Why Steve Jobs will never put Adobe Flash on iOS devices). [...]

]]> By: The death of Flash – 8 years in the making | Internet App developer support forum http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-436 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:13:26 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-436 [...] Sure, Apple could have still adopted the Flash Platform in 2010, but it was not in the company’s best interest at that time. In the end, Apple decided not to adopt the Flash Platform because Flash would limit its ability to differentiate its devices. Apple marketing was focused on the broad availability of apps that worked best on iOS. To support such positioning, Apple needed developers to target the latest set of proprietary APIs (accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, etc.) rather than write to a higher level cross-device platform that would deliver undifferentiated experiences across Apple and non-Apple devices.  This is why Apple decided to block Flash from iOS (for more on this see: Why Steve Jobs will never put Adobe Flash on iOS devices). [...]

]]> By: The death of Flash – 8 years in the making | VisionMobile :: blog http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-435 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:47:57 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-435 [...] Sure, Apple could have still adopted the Flash Platform in 2010, but it was not in the company’s best interest at that time.  In the end, Apple decided not to adopt the Flash Platform because Flash would limit its ability to differentiate its devices.   Apple marketing was focused on the broad availability of apps that worked best on iOS.  To support such positioning, Apple needed developers to target the latest set of proprietary APIs (accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, etc.) rather than write to a higher level cross-device platform that would deliver undifferentiated experiences across Apple and non-Apple devices.  This is why Apple decided to block Flash from iOS (for more on this see: Why Steve Jobs will never put Adobe Flash on iOS devices). [...]

]]> By: Tinku Tharasing (@flashmadblog) http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-429 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:12:40 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-429 Nice post. As i am a flash developer i hate the act of steve, but i honor that man as he did it to make his innovations unique. Thanks for sharing your thoughts

]]> By: Anonymous http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-300 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:33:55 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-300 Just so you know, I’ve been running flash apps on my HP iPaq 2110, with full touch support (no visible mouse cursor stuff) and the flash player performed relatively good (take in consideration, that the device is quite old). The only reason Apple keep flash from their devices is because they are #$&%$.

]]> By: Apple a Business-driven Differentiator; or a UX Snob? « Skavinger http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-279 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:00:15 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-279 [...] or a UX Snob? August 19, 2010 by Ricardo Omar Sanchez Francisco Kattan on why Adobe Flash will never enjoy the tap of exuberant fingers on a iOS touch screen: Adobe Flash will not come to iPhone OS devices because Flash would limit Apple’s ability to [...]

]]> By: Carsten Schlipf http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-278 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:29:54 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-278 I have two more reasons:

Apple holds patents related to HTML 5 Canvas and is a licensee of H.264.

Apple Safari is currently ahead with regards to HTML 5 compatibility. However HTML 5 has still no standardized rendering engine. So there will be incompatibilities between browser implementations as for HTML 4, CSS 3 and their predecessors. So developers will have to optimize their HTML 5 applications. If they target iPhone users, they will optimize their HTML 5 apps for Safari on iOS. These apps may run also on other mobile browser, but there might be limitations in most cases.

]]> By: zerolinesofcode http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-266 Wed, 26 May 2010 09:29:54 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-266 Flash and Runtimes on Mobile Devices, Who is right? Steve Jobs or Adobe?

Steve will not put as in the following post,

http://zerolinesofcode.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/flash-and-runtimes-on-mobile-devices-who-is-right-steve-jobs-or-adobe/

]]> By: Øyvind S http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-263 Sun, 16 May 2010 14:22:22 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-263 This is a great analysis of the current situation.

I would like to point out anothe business aspect: No flash on iPhone/ipad, also means no premium advertising channel for a very lucrative segment of consumers.

This creates two bussines oporunities for Apple:

1: content owners need to think different about how to finance their content creation (since advertising obviously will not pay enough) for instance through App Store or iTunes etc

2: iAd will rule the iPhone/ipad advertising market, probably worth around two billion a year

]]> By: Vassar Talk Tech » Vassar TalkTech Episode 35 Links and Media http://franciscokattan.com/2010/03/07/why-steve-jobs-will-never-put-adobe-flash-on-iphone-os-devices/#comment-260 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:18:40 +0000 http://franciscokattan.com/?p=211#comment-260 [...] Why Apple won’t bring Flash to its devices [...]

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