Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Demos Flash on Tablets and Smartphones (Including the Apple iPhone)

February 17, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Here is a video I did of Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demoing Flash Player technology on tablets and smartphones, including the Apple iPhone, as well as the Google (GOOG) Android-powered Nexus One.

Adobe (ADBE) has faced criticism over Flash and is under attack by Apple (AAPL), which is hoping for a world without the ubiquitous video software.

In fact, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly called Adobe “lazy” and noted that the company had let Flash become a buggy security nightmare and resource hairball.

BoomTown did an interview with Lynch about all of this earlier today, as Adobe pushes forward at making Flash as popular on smartphones and other devices as it has been on computers, with all kinds of initiatives and workarounds.

I call that “sneaky” rather than lazy, but you be the judge!

Here’s the demo video:

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jimbovonwinskinheimer

I think that everyone would be fine with Flash if it were not so totally buggy. In its current form, it's more trouble than it's worth. If they could make it work, users would be happy and Apple would welcome Flash to the iPhone and iPad. As it stand, I hate hitting Flash sites.
j8reynolds

I think you missed a very important point in this video. The game running on the iPhone has been essentially ported over and compiled as an iPhone app. This doesn't apply to the allthingsd.com website and allow the Flash videos to run on the iPhone.
andyfield

Apple won't ever allow Flash on the iPhone – accusations about Flash crashing and suchlike are very much a sideshow. Apple won't allow Flash in a browser on the iPhone simply because it would mean they lose control over their apps. Flash would allow people to create their own app-like behaviour.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashujoshi Ashu_Joshi

Are all Flash Apps made equal – I suspect that many of the apps actually require specific versions – a problem that will only get worse when you have platforms that use various types of accelerated engines in hardware to improve the performance?
http://allthingsd.com/boomtown Kara Swisher

I know. I was making a point about other videos we embed on site. But thanks for the clarification.
http://www.facebook.com/ziyad.dadabhoy Ziyad Dadabhoy

Question: Do you have a mac? I am only sking because i notice that most people have a problem with flash when they are on a mac. I have a 6 year old PC with 1 gig of ram and a video card not able to run any video game that came out in 2009. Flash runs perfect. I think Apple just doesnt want to make OSX cooperate with flash and blames it on Adobe.
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ryanB123

Call me crazy but isn’t holding out for HTML 5 equivalent to saying I’m only going to burn candles until fusion power generation comes online? Sure it’s going to be great when it gets here but who knows when that’s going to be and what to do in the meantime?? I’ll tell you what’s more likely to happen; in my case, I’m very tempted to dump my iPhone as soon as comparable phone technologies roll out (with Flash) so I can reach most of the majority of the web. What galls me is if Apple were really concerned about my experience, they would not have given ATT an exclusive contract. They can’t handle my iPhone let alone when iPads bring the service even more to its knees.

In regards to web ads; in my view Adobe is helping to keep our democracy alive by enabling electronic media advertising with tools like Flash. We need a successful paradigm shift to happen as quickly as possible as we watch the precipitous decline of print media. If clicks don’t turn into cash, say goodbye to quality journalism that depends on advertising revenue.
ryanB123

Call me crazy but isn’t holding out for HTML 5 equivalent to saying I’m only going to burn candles until fusion power generation comes online? Sure it’s going to be great when it gets here but who knows when that’s going to be and what to do in the meantime?? I’ll tell you what’s more likely to happen; in my case, I’m very tempted to dump my iPhone as soon as comparable phone technologies roll out (with Flash) so I can reach most of the majority of the web. What galls me is if Apple were really concerned about my experience, they would not have given ATT an exclusive contract. They can’t handle my iPhone let alone when iPads bring the service even more to its knees.

In regards to web ads; in my view Adobe is helping to keep our democracy alive by enabling electronic media advertising with tools like Flash. We need a successful paradigm shift to happen as quickly as possible as we watch the precipitous decline of print media. If clicks don’t turn into cash, say goodbye to quality journalism that depends on advertising revenue.
ryanB123

Call me crazy but isn’t holding out for HTML 5 equivalent to saying I’m only going to burn candles until fusion power generation comes online? Sure it’s going to be great when it gets here but who knows when that’s going to be and what to do in the meantime?? I’ll tell you what’s more likely to happen; in my case, I’m very tempted to dump my iPhone as soon as comparable phone technologies roll out (with Flash) so I can reach most of the majority of the web. What galls me is if Apple were really concerned about my experience, they would not have given ATT an exclusive contract. They can’t handle my iPhone let alone when iPads bring the service even more to its knees.

In regards to web ads; in my view Adobe is helping to keep our democracy alive by enabling electronic media advertising with tools like Flash. We need a successful paradigm shift to happen as quickly as possible as we watch the precipitous decline of print media. If clicks don’t turn into cash, say goodbye to quality journalism that depends on advertising revenue.
pockettaco

hop on over to hobnox.com/audiotool if you think your 6 year old PC is up to what flash apps do.. OR openoffice maybe?

My brand new 1.6Ghz netbook chokes on flash apps.

I have a mac and a pc (several, of each..) flash is the leading cause of hangups and browser crashes on both..
http://www.facebook.com/dcsuk Dave Csuk

Flash is fine.
http://www.facebook.com/fiser Joel Fiser

Flash is not buggy. Some developers who create Flash content write buggy code. It's that simple.

There are excellent Flash developers who write lean, fast, bug-free code (I'm one) and there are less than excellent developers….

A Flash SWF starts life as a blank slate taking 0 cycles of CPU and memory. The developer takes it from there.
http://www.facebook.com/fiser Joel Fiser

Again. The bugginess you experience is the developer's fault. Not Flash's.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Demos Flash on Tablets and Smartphones (Including the Apple iPhone)

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