> If Android was making significant gains against Apple, and all of its best apps
> were Flash based, then Adobe could offer Apple access to all of Android’s best
> apps, which would give them a lot of power. The fact is that there have yet to
> be any widely deployed Android phones that support Flash. That’s right, Adobe
> has been making the case for Flash on iPhone for 3 years, but still hasn’t
> deployed a non-lite version of Flash on any phones, even when Apple is not
> obstructing them.
via [devwhy.com](http://www.devwhy.com/blog/2010/4/12/its-all-about-the-framework.html)
That’s the key to the whole argument right there. Adobe plays itself as the victim here, but the fact of the matter is that they are dropping the ball delivering their own product everywhere. Google has made no attempt to block Flash on Android, and yet there is no full version of Flash running on Android. Same goes for Palm. Same goes for Blackberry. There is no viable Flash platform on any mobile. There isn’t even a good running Flash plugin on the Mac. And yet Apple is supposed to just let Adobe trash up the iPhone and take over Apple’s OS future? Why would any sensible company allow that to happen?
By and large, the only people who are complaining about this are Adobe evangelists (because it’s their job) and programmers who want to make iPhone apps without learning how to code in Objective-C. Users couldn’t care less.
As this article suggests, if Adobe and all these programmers want to prove Apple wrong, all they need to do is deliver Flash on Android and write killer apps that people can’t live without. Don’t whine to Apple about fairness. Get out there and kick some ass.
