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We mentioned here a few days back that Steve Jobs and Apple want a new version of Flash designed specifically for the iPhone. The reasons being Flash Lite is too weak and the desktop version is too cumbersome. A few things have transpired in the land of Flash lately so here’s a quick timeline to recap the events thus far.

• March 05 - Steve Jobs calls for middle ground version of Flash player for iPhone.
• March 05 - Microsoft announces a Silverlight (Flash alternative) deal with Nokia handsets allowing for use on select handsets.
• March 17 - Microsoft announces support for Flash Lite & Adobe Reader LE for Windows Mobile. Future handsets will have both options available
• March 19 - Adobe’s CEO commits to providing Flash player for iPhone saying he is “committed” to it.
• March 20 - Adobe announces that current iPhone SDK prevents them from creating new version and that a deal needs worked out with Apple. Citing some fine print in the SDK, Adobe claims the current license restricts them and that they “need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it.”

Jeffrey Hammond, of industry research firm Forrester, says that it’s “interesting to see the discontinuity of Apple’s approach to all this. There appear to be more restrictions emerging from the conditions surrounding the SDK...”He also notes that Apple takes a “hefty cut” from applications that will be purchased through the new App Store. He even goes so far to say that Apple is acting in the protective way that telephone companies have acted for years.
Hammond detects “a certain amount of frustration” from developers and anticipates that some of them will end up developing for other platforms, in particular Google’s Android.

Source: TopTechNews