Adobe reignites Flash on iOS

Flash Development on IOS 4

Technically this is good news providing that the myriad of developers write decent efficient code be it using the Flash toolset or any other. I guess if the app does not screw up anything on the devices that will be good. Flash on the Android is hardly a sterling performance yet.

At the end of the day an app has to provide a user with something they want in a professional polished way. I suppose Flash is very much like death by powerpoint - people spend ages getting their slides to look cool and forget all about the actual information in it.

I suppose it will be self policing with users evaluating apps with their positive and negative comments

So let's hope we get some improved apps in general and not as Apple put it amateur hour

There's cracks in the walls of the Garden of Job and getting bigger

Looks like between the FCC and Google, and inadvertently aided by AT&T, the much vaunted Wall of Job is going the same way as all walls - be they Jericho, Hadrian's, Great [China] or Berlin - they all collapse.

The technical innovation unleashed by the introduction of the smart-phone was only being inhibited by the personal prejudice of one man who betrayed his duty to Apple shareholders in the process.

I actually like the curated environment ..

I don't want to manage yet another computer, or worry about security before downloading something to my iPod touch.

However I'd prefer if their only criteria for approval was security and system stability. I don't mind them applying age/quality ratings as long as they are voluntary.

Somehow I don't see Apple giving up that much control.

About time.

Hope this means that a legal Flash plugin for Safari on the iOS is coming soon.

Does the almighty Jobs know how many websites out there that are, due to a brain-dead decision by the web developers, fully created in Flash? And many sites no longer offer HTML only pages because "nobody uses <insert obsolete browser name here> on <insert obsolete OS name here> anymore"?

Sent from my iPad, which had just given me hell when I tried to load up Biostar's website to check a motherboard's spec out.

Doesn't it block Flash *still*?

It may not block application written with Flash like games, but doesn't this license block stil the Flash Player within a browser? It downloads code and executes it. Unless each Flash content ir "repackaged" and delivered through the store, it still violates the license.

I knew there was a reason for FlashBlock

I can only hope that there is something like this for the iPhone soon then.

On the other hand, this could be temporary. Once reports of locked up phones due to flash based malware start hitting the news I see that it could be gone in a "Flash". pun intended.

Mine the one with a copy of 'Flash Gordon' in the pocket.(Not pirated naturally)

Hang on

Did you just use the word "skills" in relation to Flash developers??