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Flash on the iPhone?

Wednesday June 6, 2007 10:43 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
A screenshot posted to Flickr points out that one portion of the New York Times website shown during the most recent iPhone ad correctly renders a Flash-based video.

Apple has not yet confirmed whether or not the iPhone's browser will support flash. This is not definitive proof that the iPhone supports Flash, however, as the screens could have been fabricated for the purposes of the advertisement.
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Zwhaler
61 months ago
If the iPhone has "the internet" it would not surprise me if it had Flash, becasue there are many websites out there that require it.
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TomSmithMacEd
61 months ago
This would be really big.

The myspace generation.... youtube (flash video)... on your phone.

Great for Apple, probably bad for society (ha)
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Chaszmyr
61 months ago
I think we all knew that flash would be coming eventually if it was at all possible (Which it should be if they try hard enough), but it is awesome that it looks like it will be available at launch.
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kingtubby
61 months ago
Safari will ship with flash. The commecial was an actual video. And they would never ship "just the internet" without Flash.
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From Win to Mac
61 months ago
This isn't a rumor... When the iPhone was released, Steve said so himself:

Flash YES
Java NO

I'll look for it.
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kainjow
61 months ago
Screw Flash. I want Silverlight.


;)
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jwa276
61 months ago
SWEEEEEET

please excuse my caps :D
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Clive At Five
61 months ago
Who would notice that?

And to add a relevant comment, I would be shocked if the iPhone did not support Flash.

-Clive
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arn
61 months ago

This isn't a rumor... When the iPhone was released, Steve said so himself:

Flash YES
Java NO

I'll look for it.


There's some controversy

But see this FAQ from Pogue
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/ultimate-iphone-faqs-list-part-2/


Markoff: “What about all those plugins that live within Safari now, like Flash or like Java or like JavaScript?”

Jobs: “Well, JavaScript’s built into the Phone. Sure.”

Markoff: “And what are you thinking about Flash and Java?”

Jobs: “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”

Markoff: “Flash?”

Jobs: “Well, you might see that.”

Markoff: “What about YouTube–”

Jobs: “Yeah, YouTube—of course. But you don’t need to have Flash to show YouTube. All you need to do is deal with YouTube. And plus, we could get ‘em to up their video resolution at the same time, by using h.264 instead of the old codec.”

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nagromme
61 months ago
FWIW, those video controls do not look like the actual video controls on the site.

I'd say it might be an alt image with dummy controls, created by NY Times rather than Apple, but I see no alt image when I disable plugins.

The iPhone version also lacks the ads in the top corners. Maybe just a mockup page made for the ad?
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