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Apple Once Considered Flash for iPhone
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Mon 08 Feb 2010
While Apple has been fervent in their refusal to include Adobe Flash support on their iPhone, it may come as a surprise to most that Flash was once considered for the iphone, and that it was to have been implemented across the platform. However, Apple found that it didn't really fit what they wanted and scrubbed the support entirely from their website, SDK and iPhone OS.
blog.anscamobile.com - What makes this story so dramatic is that Apple actually wanted Flash at one point — yes, you read that right, Apple wanted Flash on the iPhone. At least initially, they bought into Adobe’s vision of a Flash-enabled mobile web. Of course, that all seems stranger than fiction now, but remember the world when SJ first demonstrated the iPhone at MacWorld, months before the first iPhone shipped and long before the advent of the App Store. At that time, Apple was promoting the iPhone as a desktop-class web browser in the palm of your hands, which inexorably meant supporting Flash content.
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