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When The Steve stated a few weeks ago that Adobe’s Flash was “Too slow for the iPhone”, many developers and some users were disappointed, but a glimmer of hope appeared when earlier this week Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen let slip (during a conference call about quarterly earnings) that Adobe was “committed to bringing the Flash experience to the iPhone and [we] will work with Apple.”. He continued: ”We’ve evaluated the SDK, we can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves and we think it benefits our joint customers.”

Finally, Flash on my iPhone by mdurwin2

This quickly sparked a discussion all over the blogosphere: would Adobe really pull it off within the SDK? Not Likely. Popular Blog Engadget foolishly suggested Apple might buckle under pressure from Adobe and allow some exceptions from SDK-rules. Foolish, because everyone knows the Steve makes no exceptions.

But all discussions – maybe some people’s hopes – have now been quashed. In an official statement, Adobe had to blushingly admit that “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 and the current license around it.”.

Good luck with that, guys! My prediction: No Flash For You! Next!

Do you want Flash on the iPhone? Would it make you buy/not buy one? Let me know in the comments.