Teerasej's Flash platform blog

You may be a web user who liked to play the Flash game on the web site. You may be an animator who love to bring the animation to the internet to make people fun and laugh. You may be a Flash developer who are innovating new web application to the world of no-border. If you are those 3 kinds, you might interesting that Adobe planned to bring those content to iPhone since October 2009.

With CS5, Adobe would like to bring animator and developer to new edge of creation. They did it before with “cross-browser” concept. Now they are doing with “cross platform” concept which means Flash content can be run on your PC, your Mac, your mobile phone, and your tablet (I don’t sure if they would going to your oven or watch soon). Especially, they pointed to iPhone from Apple.

Unfortunately, now Apple has changed their policy. In short understanding, they said any application which is not been built on their platform (Objective-C, C, and C++) will be considered to prohibit.

This activity has rising the disappoint feeling to Flash developer around the world, including me.

It is ok, if they came out to say this policy after Adobe announced their “Packager for iPhone” last year. It is ok, because they own their platform and they has right to do anything with their policy. But they did this 5 days before the official release of CS5. What are they thinking?!

They may thought they have a big fan who love to use their device. But the world still has Google Android and Windows Slate which I thought most of Flash developer is turning to these more “open” platform. It may be the golden age for Apple, like Microsoft had before. But you can remember that Java and Linux have been founded after that time.

We will see.