After months of working on the technology, it appears Adobe is still having technical issues with creating a workable version of Flash for the Apple iPhone.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen elaborated during an interview with Bloomberg:
“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
In November, when Apple confirmed that they were working with Adobe to bring the Flash plug-in, Narayen said:
“To bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone Web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK (the iPhone software development kit) and the current license around it.” It appears not too much has changed since then.
At the same time, Adobe released a version of Flash that works with Android and Windows Mobile phones.
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According to MacNN, the BBC is working on a mobile version of its popular iPlayer software that will make the service available on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
Visitors to the BBC iPlayer website through one of the portable devices will see a “small, inactive link appears in the corner of the main window, indicating that a beta version of the player software will soon be available.”
The BBC or Apple have not confirmed the link but with the iPhone SDK event coming soon, there should be more news upcoming.
The BBC is also currently developing an iPlayer for Mac users who currently cannot download any content as it is protected WMV files.
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After only four days of being available, the Apple iPhone SDK has been downloaded over 100,000 times by developers, said the company.
A few of the more notable developers that are now working on titles are Electronic Arts, THQ, PopCap, Namco, id Software and Sega.
“Developer reaction to the iPhone SDK has been incredible with more than 100,000 downloads in the first four days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice VP of Worldwide Product Marketing.
“Also, over one million people have watched the launch video on Apple.com, further demonstrating the incredible interest developers have in creating applications for the iPhone.”
The SDK is free for all to download and Apple has also launched the App Store which will allow would-be developers to deliver applications and games directly to iPhone and iPod Touch users.
“The iPhone is the mobile platform game developers have been dreaming of,” said Scott Zerby, vice president, of THQ Wireless.
“We’re looking at how we can use the iPhone’s innovative user interface to create new game experiences for our big brand entertainment partners that consumers love.”
