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Apple Continues to Resist Bringing Flash to iPhone

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Flash continues to not be on the iPhone and this story continues to be news. I don't get it.

and most iPhone users continue to not care.

I can't decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. The only reason why I'd want flash on my iPhone is for some websites...but a lot of those rely on the assumption that the user is using a mouse. Lots of menus are difficult to navigate without mouseovers, etc.

I also don't think Flash will be the iPhone's undoing. What's the biggest use of flash nowadays? Youtube and the like, and possibly some apps like games. Some games will be nearly impossible to play, and Apple already took care of the Youtube aspect...

If I were SteveJ, I'd also block it. The iPhone App Store is going to be a substantial source of revenue. Why would I let people bypass the store and get apps through Flash for free?

Becuase those people are your customers, and you want them to upgrade to the next version of iphone instead of switch to another, superior phone.

I'm not saying there is a superior phone out there, yet, but this is one of the many features I'll be comparing when my current iphone contract is up. Most phone consumers are fickle -- apple will not be exempt from this in the future.

I think Apple's counting on no company making a phone that's close to as good that also supports Flash. To be fair, so far no company's competing very well.

Question: do any of you know any iPhone users who want Flash on their iPhones?

Good for them.

Flash is good for animation, as in vector graphic pictures with movement.

It is in no way a superior form of video, as in actual movies.

What's wrong with FLV? I don't know much about it but as far as I know it's a decent container format, especially now that it can wrap H.264 and AAC.

The competing formats all originated with streaming video in mind, while flash backed into it.

Just watch a YouTube video compared to the same video streamed over the internet in almost any other format.

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