Via the entire Twitterverse, Adobe announced today that the coming version of Flash will be able to create native iPhone apps. This seems to mean a couple of things:
- Adobe is admitting to the world how important the iPhone is to the future of mobile, and that they’re desperate to be an important player, even if it’s on Apple’s terms. Desperate doesn’t mean it’s a dumb move, just blatant.
- There’s going to be a HUGE influx of tiny one-off games into the app store. This is a great way for flash game developers to make some extra cash off the work they’ve already done, but the amount of crap the app store will be inundated with will be unprecedented (and that’s saying alot, considering what’s already there). I foresee an architectural redesign of the app store and possibly the submission process to happen around the same time CS5 is released.
- If users can’t tell the difference between a Flash iPhone app and a “pure” one, Flash could easily become the predominant development platform for the iPhone. Even I can understand flash, Objective-C is a decidedly harrier beast. There’s alot standing in the way of this however. Will Flash be able to access everything the SDK can? Will you be able to use all the phone’s capabilities or have to recreate certain things? Will there be a performance hit, or worse, will it suck battery life? If any of these things are true, you might see people advertise there apps as being “not created in Flash” or some such. Maybe Apple will segregate them into their own portion of the app store (I doubt it, but anything’s possible).
Anyway, this is an exciting development and certainly shakes up the space a bit. Looking forward to seeing how it plays out.. and making some one-off silly Flash iPhone games.
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“Objective-C is a decidedly harrier beast.”
Does it do vertical take-offs and landings?
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Frankly, I’m NOT looking forward to this, seeing as Adobe has demonstrated that they won’t fix critical security bugs in their frameworks:
http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/2009/11/flash-vulnerability-found-adobe-says-no.html
Do I want Flash5 generated apps on my iPhone? Certainly not.
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