That’s not for lack of trying, according to Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, who has said during Adobe calls with financial analysts that Adobe has made “internal progress” getting Flash to work on the iPhone.Īpple CEO Steve Jobs has been critical of Adobe’s efforts in the past, indicating that the desktop version of Flash runs too slowly on the iPhone, and that Flash Lite, Adobe’s current mobile-optimized version of Flash, “is not capable of being used with the Web.” Jobs said during a 2008 meeting with shareholders that Adobe is missing a product in the middle.Īnd at least in some respects, Flash Player 10.1 would seek to bridge that gap which exists between the desktop Flash experience and Flash Lite.

So far, Flash has been a non-starter on the popular iPhone. Flash Player 10.1 – the missing product in the middle? Other efforts have tried to supplant Flash’s dominance: Microsoft developed a competing technology called Silverlight, for example, while HTML5 offers some capabilities similar to Flash - Adobe estimates that the previous release, Flash Player 10, has been installed on more than 93 percent of computers since its release 10 months ago. In related news, Adobe and Research In Motion (RIM) previously announced a collaboration to bring Flash Player to Blackberry smartphones.įlash is ubiquitous on the Web as a delivery system for rich media content including video, animation and sound. Flash Player 10.1 is expected to be available as a public developer beta for Windows Mobile, Palm WebOS, Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux “later this year,” with public betas for Google Android and Symbian OS to follow in early 2010. iPhone OS is conspicuously absent from the list of supported platforms, but Flash Player 10.1 could be the fabled “middle product” Steve Jobs has been looking for.

Adobe Systems on Monday unveiled Flash Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks and other Internet-connected devices.

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