Jimmy97
02-01-2009, 04:36 AM
Yep, you read right. It's been discussed a bit in another topic but I thought it was worthy of its own headline here.
According to Engadget: With Android getting all Flash-ey, Apple's "Goldilocks" position on Flash -- the full Flash player is too hefty, Flash Lite is too weak -- seemed pretty untenable. Now Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has revealed that Apple and Adobe are "collaborating" on making Flash a reality on the iPhone, citing the technical challenge it presents. What's clear is that with all this work to do, it doesn't seem they're going the watered-down Flash Lite route, but we're trying not to hold our breath for a full-on, Hulu-friendly version that will finally help us get that Doogie Howser fix on the go. Naturally, there's no word on when this will hit.
This is excellent. I'm just wondering if we'll still have the "YouTube" icon or if it'll just be deleted or maybe replaced with "Flash" or something. I think it'll stay with Flash as a plugin for Safari, with YouTube links opening in the YouTube app as usual. Hopefully it'll have an on/off toggle in the Safari settings.
Awesome. Now give me iChat with push (and hotmail support), copy/paste, landscape keyboard for mail, texting, and iChat, along with call duration logs, and I'll be happy.
^That's my idea of an ideal 3.0 software (with flash, of course). I'd also like the Wi-Fi toggle to be in the Settings directly, not clicking on "Wi-Fi" then the toggle. The name of the network you're connected to could be on its left directly, and you'd press the "Wi-Fi" text or the network name to go into the actual Wi-Fi Settings to choose the network and whatnot.
I'm assuming Flash will come with 3.0 at earliest, but it's probably the most likely scenario seeing as they've been working on it since the SDK actually launched. 3.1 at latest.
According to Engadget: With Android getting all Flash-ey, Apple's "Goldilocks" position on Flash -- the full Flash player is too hefty, Flash Lite is too weak -- seemed pretty untenable. Now Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has revealed that Apple and Adobe are "collaborating" on making Flash a reality on the iPhone, citing the technical challenge it presents. What's clear is that with all this work to do, it doesn't seem they're going the watered-down Flash Lite route, but we're trying not to hold our breath for a full-on, Hulu-friendly version that will finally help us get that Doogie Howser fix on the go. Naturally, there's no word on when this will hit.
This is excellent. I'm just wondering if we'll still have the "YouTube" icon or if it'll just be deleted or maybe replaced with "Flash" or something. I think it'll stay with Flash as a plugin for Safari, with YouTube links opening in the YouTube app as usual. Hopefully it'll have an on/off toggle in the Safari settings.
Awesome. Now give me iChat with push (and hotmail support), copy/paste, landscape keyboard for mail, texting, and iChat, along with call duration logs, and I'll be happy.
^That's my idea of an ideal 3.0 software (with flash, of course). I'd also like the Wi-Fi toggle to be in the Settings directly, not clicking on "Wi-Fi" then the toggle. The name of the network you're connected to could be on its left directly, and you'd press the "Wi-Fi" text or the network name to go into the actual Wi-Fi Settings to choose the network and whatnot.
I'm assuming Flash will come with 3.0 at earliest, but it's probably the most likely scenario seeing as they've been working on it since the SDK actually launched. 3.1 at latest.