<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite">The reason flash isn't on the iphone is a business limitation, not a <br>technical limitation.</blockquote><div><br></div>I don't believe this to be entirely true. It is partly, but not entirely.<div><br></div><div>First (and the biggest), Flash runs like a DOG on OS X compared to Windows and since the iPhone OS is OS X, the Flash player is nowhere near optimized for a micro device like the iPhone.</div><div><br></div><div>Second, the iPhone being a touch screen device as it is, the user interface doesn't really accommodate to things like hover states very easily. Since a lot of Flash based content relies on this, using these sites would be a true nightmare on the iPhone.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't wanna call anything in regards to what Adobe will do or not but if I was to bet, it will be a long time before we see Flash on the iPhone.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyways, that was just a side note... feel free to resume the discussion :-P<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>--</div><div><b style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Travis Bell</span></span></span></b></div><div><br></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On 02/12/2008, at 11:31 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Matt Hakim wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To bring a little bit of positive value to this post, consider that<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Slingbox has a proof of concept player for iPhone/iPod Touch and keep<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">threatening to release it "soon". Looking into how they are doing it<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">might lend some insight.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">adobe say they are going to release a flash player for iphone too.<br></blockquote><br>The reason flash isn't on the iphone is a business limitation, not a <br>technical limitation.<br>Slingbox has been demonstrating live TV streaming on the iPhone for a <br>couple of months now (which is actually relevant to this conversation).<br><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/08/sling-announces-proof-of-concept-slingplayer-mobile-for-iphone/">http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/08/sling-announces-proof-of-concept-slingplayer-mobile-for-iphone/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-dev mailing list<br>mythtv-dev@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>