“Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.”

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/08/apples_iphone_4_sdk_license_bans_flash_java_mono_apps.html

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler

Find them here:

• Corona http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/
• Unity 3D  http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/iphone-1.5.1
• Phone Gap: http://phonegap.com/download

From Mike Chambers’ Blog, “The next version of Flash Authoring will enable developers to create stand-alone iPhone applications using Flash technologies (including ActionScript 3). These applications are just like any other iPhone application and can be distributed via the Apple iTunes Application store. Indeed, there are already a number of applications created with Flash on the store today.

One thing I want to stress is that this is for standalone applications, and is not the Flash Player for mobile Safari (which is something we continue to work on). The end result is a native iPhone application, and not a SWF that runs in the browser. We compile the SWF to a native application using LLVM. There is no requirement for the Flash Player / Adobe AIR Runtime to be installed on the device or included in the application. The end result is a native iPhone application.”

• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
• http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2009/10/05/building-applications-for-the-iphone-with-flash/

My favorite line: computer administrative debris

Interface design and the iPhone

“The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly
intensifying the information resolution of each displayed page. Small screens, as on
traditional cell phones, show very little information per screen, which in turn leads
to deep hierarchies of stacked-up thin information–too often leaving users with
“Where am I?” puzzles. Better to have users looking over material adjacent in space rather than stacked in time. To do so requires increasing the information resolution of the screen by the hardware
(higher resolution screens) and by screen design (eliminating screen-hogging
computer administrative debris, and distributing information adjacent in space).”

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Update – Also added a homescreen icon – you can now have me on your homescreen:

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