Those technologies are also headed for other smartphone operating systems, but particularly with a new generation of powerful Android phones, Google's open-source operating system that right now is the chief rival for iPhone OS. The second result was new emphasis on Adobe's partnership with Google to bring Flash and AIR to the Android operating system. The first result is that Adobe ditched future development of the Flash-to-iPhone programming technology, accompanied by some fightin' words from Mike Chambers, Adobe's principal product manager for the Flash platform: "As developers for the iPhone have learned, if you want to develop for the iPhone you have to be prepared for Apple to reject or restrict your development at any time, and for seemingly any reason." That blocked Flash and some other cross-platform developer tools. As something of an end run around Apple, it built into its new Flash Pro CS5 developer tools the ability to create Flash applications that compile into native programs for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.īut just after the iPad launched without Flash and just before Adobe launched its Creative Suite 5 products that included the new programming technology, Apple changed the iPhone 4.0 software developer kit license so that people could only write programs in the C, C++, or Objective-C languages-the latter from Apple. Programmers can write programs that run on Flash Player on any number of computing devices AIR is geared for for standalone applications and adds Web browser technology abilities.Īdobe, which wishes to extend the ubiquity Flash enjoys on desktops and laptops to the mobile market, isn't happy about Apple's Flash decision. Apple, though, has thwarted Adobe's ambition to have the Flash Player browser plug-in or the related AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) technology on the device. The iPhone is the smartphone to beat these days when it comes to polish, power, and wealth of applications. Q: Wait, what? Flash? Objective-C? What's the background here? It's not nearly so black and white, so let's dig into the issue a bit more. Apple is inflicting a crippled Web on its customers for its selfish ends.Īll these positions have some merit but are exaggerated.
Apple is taking a stand for the betterment of the Web. Flash is a buggy, insecure, resource hog. There are plenty convenient rhetorical points for those who want to find a place in the debate: Apple exerts draconian control over its walled garden. But beneath the surface, it's not all as simple as it seems. The face-off between Apple and Adobe Systems concerning Flash on the iPhone and iPad is a perfect fit for today's world of fanboys and flame wars.
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