Flash video not suitable for iPhone, Apple CEO says

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Mar 6, 2008 9:19 AM EST

Article Source: CBC

technology, video, iphone, mobile, steve-jobs, flash, adobe, media-player

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone won't be using Adobe Systems' Inc.'s popular Flash media player any time soon, saying the technology doesn't meet his company's performance standards for video.

Speaking at a shareholder meeting in Cupertino, Calif. on Tuesday, Jobs said the version of Flash formatted to personal computers is too slow on the iPhone while the mobile version of the media player is "is not capable of being used with the web," according to reports from Dow Jones and technology website C-Net.

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Michael Sautter

Is this just posturing by Jobs to get a better deal out of Adobe?

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#1 - Thu Mar 6, 2008 9:38 AM EST

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gecko85

I doubt it. He's right, though. The full (desktop) version of Flash is too resource intensive to be used on portable devices. The mobile version "Flash Lite" is too crippled to be used for most websites that feature Flash. The key part of what Jobs said is that until the processing power of mobile devices increases, full Flash is out of the question.

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#1.1 - Thu Mar 6, 2008 11:22 AM EST

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keithemmel

You have to wonder if this has anything to do with the rumors floating around the apple will use some of its $16 billion in cash to buy adobe? Maybe gauge just how important Flash is to the future of mobile?

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#2 - Fri Mar 7, 2008 6:27 PM EST

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