Flash to support GPS, Accelerometer, Multitouch..."up to Apple" to support iPhone

Seth Weintraub
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July 23, 2009
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Ted Patrick, Adobe's Senior Manager of Developer Communities has said that he expect to see Flash support the major capabilites (GPS, Accelerometrs, Multitouch) of modern mobile devices.   The comments were made today at an Adobe event for analysts.  Adobe's CTO, Kevin Rollins added that a full featured version of Flash for mobile phones will be available in beta by the end of this year/early next year.  

The demonstrations were all on Android handsets which are running on processors significantly slower than those in Apple's iPhone 3GS.

The mobile Flash demonstrations shown today by Adobe were all on Android devices, still no world on Flash for the iPhone. ("It's up to Apple," was the line again today.) A bevy of beautiful, touchable, turnable, location-aware Flash apps on Android could create a pretty compelling competitor to the contents of the iPhone app store.

 

Comments (8)

Str1f3 (not verified) | July 23, 2009 - 5:04pm

No thank you Adobe. Go shovel your crap elsewhere. Your platform will be dead in five years.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 23, 2009 - 7:56pm

Competition and choice is *always* beneficial for consumers. Let Flash put pressure on Apple to either support it or to offer a compelling alternative.

I say bring it, Adobe.

Dr.Evil (not verified) | July 24, 2009 - 6:08am

HTML5 is going to make Flash obsolete.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 24, 2009 - 1:08am

With what I have seen that HTML 5 and CSS 3 can do.
I can't realy see the point in flash anymore.
Beside supporting MS Internet Explore, but thats becouse they don't support it, or has plans to support it anytime soon

MadDog (not verified) | July 24, 2009 - 2:04am

Can't say I've ever seen those two phrases ever used in the same sentence before, and I suspect I never will again.

.. (not verified) | July 24, 2009 - 2:20am

"compelling alternative" it's called html5, CSS3, and webkit and it's here now. "Competition and choice is *always* beneficial for consumers" innovation is always best for the customer and that's something flash does not stand for. Flash can go die in a hole.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 24, 2009 - 7:12am

The more they keep adding core functionality to it that should reside in the browser spec or delegated to the operating system, the more they will run into critical and time-sensitive exploits that open up giant security holes. In my organization "critical" is usually a situation that results in the total removal of that feature if a patch can't be applied quickly with no user impact.

It's nice to have these functions...but consider the fact that with flash, you can now remote control any desktop from any other desktop that runs flash (Mac or PC) through even the tightest corporate firewall restrictions.

Now add to that any random exploit that comes along where the flash api can be exploited through your web browser...which is becoming the main "App" our clients use.

No thank you.

So rather than worry about the security of the the site, I have to worry about the security of my application framework (plugins). But to disable that framework might render our web users out of work. Nice.

JB

Woody (not verified) | July 25, 2009 - 8:00am

Considering how the latest Flash version runs on my Mac, I don't want that crap anywhere near my iPhone. Flash hogs the processor, and grinds the browser to a halt if you leave it on a Flash site too long. It also takes forEVER for it to load up, which mean that any site with a crappy flash will pause while Flash tries to get its ducks in a row. A google search revealed I'm not the only one with these problems. What a piece of crap.

APPLE, KEEP FLASH OFF MY IPHONE!