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Flash for the iPhone confirmed at FOTB

Flash for the iPhone confirmed at FOTB

At the Flash On The Beach (FOTB) conference in Brighton, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems Paul Betlem, confirmed that Adobe is indeed developing a Flash Player for the iPhone. However, Apple calls the shots as to when it’ll be available.

The Town Hall meeting sessions are usually a great source of Adobe information and the one at this years Flash On The Beach conference was no exception. The session was full of nuggets for Flash users, but the most relevant piece of information for others was about Flash Player for the iPhone. Upon a direct question from the audience, Paul Betlem for the first time publicly confirmed that Adobe is actively developing a Flash Player for Apple’s popular phone. He said (not direct quote) “My team is working on Flash on the iPhone, but it’s a closed platform.” He noted that Apple makes all the decisions, so in other words, the ball is in Apple’s yard at this time. If Apple says yes, Adobe will have the player available in a very short time.

After an interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan, the rumour mill got into high gear. Now we know that the Player exists within Adobe. Apple may have many reasons for not allowing Flash onto the iPhone, but if anyone has a good shot at getting their technology into the device, it would be Adobe. There were several other nuggets in this session, but we’ll get back to those in our FOTB conference reports.

In just GREAT news for the iPhone developers out there we hear that Apple has dropped the NDA that developers signed as part of the Apple Developer Program. This was the thing that kept us all from posting code, creating support groups, and even conducting training programs.

The NDA was reasonable (perhaps) during the Beta, but since the SDK’s official release it’s been nuts to keep it alive. We all hoped this would happen. Now it won’t be NEARLY as difficult for new developers.

Bring on the APPS!

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Apple Drops iPhone Dev NDA

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 11:20 AM – by Jeff Gamet

Apple unexpectedly dropped its controversial nondisclosure agreement for iPhone software developers on Wednesday. The move means third party iPhone app developers, authors, and trainers can finally discuss the software development environment and share information with others.