Apple and Adobe are working together to make a flash player somewhere in the middle. No full desktop, but also no Flash Lite. Something between the two, utilizing iPhone processing power. It is coming, eventually.
Yeah, it's being specifically designed for the iPhone to take the full advantage's of it's processing power. To Apple frickin' long enough.
Yeah! That means all those multiple flash games on the internet! Can't wait for this thing to come out, should've come out with the 2.0 software.
Yeah, y'see, considering the limited amount of CPU power, ram, and input options, I don't think many flash games are gonna work.
Yea, and it's in their benefit if they don't work. Why let you have all these alternatives to games when Apple has its own App Store?
I might be alone in this, but I hope they never bring Flash to the iPhone. As far as Flash games are concerned, I could care less. There are a ton of great iPhone games and I really don't think Apple can magically throw a switch and have all the games on NewGrounds.com (which were designed for a keyboard+mouse instead of multi-touch) be anywhere near what most people would call "functional". The iPhone can do hardware h.264 decoding, so I'd rather watch videos that way than having Flash do the decoding, sacrificing battery life as the work that would be done by the hardware decoder is offloaded to the CPU. Sites which use Flash for any kind of navigation are usually not worth visiting... Which leaves the only other use for Flash: ADVERTISEMENTS! My favorite thing about Mobile Safari is the lack of processor-slamming and sound-loaded Flash free iPod advertisements. It's going to be awesome when all those unobtrusive inline advertisements which are now static images switch to animated Flash ads with a "You've won a free iPod, click here!" soundtrack.
With the introduction of Flash on the iDevice, I'll finally be able to view BoltCreative.com! I think that the flash should just be powerful enough to run the flash images and such, not games that would be impossible to play on the iDevice.
