Here’s another iPhone problem – it does not support flash. Bill Perry of flashdevides.net reviews his brand new iPhone revealing that on the Safari browser, flash content becomes unreadable. Bill prove his claim by opening nike.com from his iPhone’s Safari browser, and in the end, he got this following page:
Bill tried some alternatives; using Quicktime to play .SWF files and downloading Adobe Flash Player but still it doesn’t help. Here’s something I don’t understand, if iPhone can play YouTube flash video, how come they missed Safari browser out?
So after all the weakness of iPhones being reveal one after another, will the sales also high rise when it reaches Asia? Will you buy one? I know I will.
via Jim
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Posted by hongkiat in Hardware & Gadget , at 07.15.07
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Jeremy July 15th, 2007
YouTube is supported on the iPhone because Google is converting all FLV videos on YouTube to the H.264 format which the iPhone can play. So isn’t a case of them supporting it in one application and not the other.
The lack of flash support on the iPhone is something that has been known since Jobs originally announced the product. The theory is that Flash takes too much processing power to run well on the iPhone currently.
Replyjoeri March 9th, 2008
not having flash in my ipod touch is a real pain. Maybe Apple just wants to wait a little and sell it as a 15€ upgrade?
Replylaura April 16th, 2009
I think the main reason for the lack of flash support is that it is an alternative development platform, one that apple doesn’t have control over. They can’t postpone it forever and i predict it will be added in a year or so.
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