Flash Player on 3G iPhone?
June 5th, 2008 by enefekt
Here we go again. Via MacRumors, Apple has filed a patent application that seems to cover some of the rumored features for the next 3G iPhone on the 2.0 software.
The interesting bit is what the application says about our very own beloved Flash Player:
“In some embodiments, the content can be played with a QuickTime, Windows Media, or Flash plugin”
So will this be in the distant future, or on Monday? 
June 5th, 2008 at 4:44 am
More than Flash what surprises me is the fact that they mention Windows Media and QuickTime, none of them actually available on iPhone. But the sentence starts with “may be”, so may be yes or may be not….
June 5th, 2008 at 4:50 am
Indeed, those others surprised me too. I sort of brushed those away like dust off a valuable treasure and focused on the “Flash plugin”
June 5th, 2008 at 6:53 am
If there is any truth to it they had better make it available for my non 3G iPhone or I’ll go crazy. Are you listening Adobe?
June 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Where was I for the 2G iPhone?
June 12th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Infact Adobe have managed to develop a full working version of the flash playersuitable for the iPhone, only the security settings within the iPhone regarding Safari’s web browser do not allow this to run. It is currently unclear as to wether a flash player will be avaliable with an update (Poss. V2 of the sofware), as an app. -avaliable fromthe app. store, or if it will be up to individual users to modify their security settings (will void the warrenty), I have contacted apple on this matter and am awaiting a reply. Now we just wait to see if we really do get the “full internet” or the “watered down” version of the internet. In early release of the iPhone apple claimed it was working hard with Adobe to develop an appropriate flash player,so perhaps together they will release it within the forseeable future, especially with the iPhone 3G and V.2 software.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
sam, i hope that for all of us that own an iphone/iphone 3G/ipod touch, that what you say is true. cause i have been looking every day to see if adobe and apple have finally come up with something so that we can all enjoy the full version of the internet instead of the “watered down” version. by the way, like your terminollogy. i continue to keep my fingers crossed for this to happen.