> Ahead of the event, some observers speculated that RIM would announce a new smartphone that includes support for Flash. In an April [interview with Fox News](http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4148785/adobe-ceo-on-creative-suite-5-and-apple), Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said RIM would bring Flash support to its devices in the second half of this year.
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> At the event Tuesday, RIM executives declined to provide a specific date for when BlackBerry devices would include Flash support. A spokesman however said that work was under way with Adobe to optimize the multimedia platform for RIM’s devices.
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> The companies are trying to optimize Flash 10.1 for BlackBerry hardware so devices provide good battery life, performance and efficiency on wireless data transfers, said Tyler Lessard, vice president of global alliances and developer relations at RIM.
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> “What’s really important… is to get it right. Flash and Flash video have very specific hardware, CPU and memory requirements,” Lessard said
via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/153133/2010/08/blackberry_flash.html?lsrc=rss_main)
Yes. Flash and Flash video DO have specific hardware, CPU, and Memory requirements. And they’re all too high for any current mobile device to handle. Which is why Flash is dead as a platform.
So let’s remind ourselves again: Flash STILL doesn’t exist on any mobile platform. There’s a beta for Android that doesn’t work well, and that’s it. No shipping product anywhere, on any mobile device, more than three years after the original iPhone.
So, then, why was Apple supposed to allow Flash on the iPhone again?
