Flash (sort of) coming to the iPhone

No, Apple isn’t caving to pressure and letting developers create plugins for the iPhone’s mobile browser. However Adobe is putting together tools to help developers work around this limitation.

Adobe has been pushing and prodding, quite publicly, to get its Flash plugin on Apple’s hugely popular iPhone since it first came out. Since Apple hasn’t flinched after nearly three years, Adobe is trying another tact.

The next version of Adobe’s Creative Studio Flash developer tools will contain a packager to turn Flash apps directly into iPhone apps. This will allow developers to deploy flash interfaces and games much more quickly to the iPhone without having to learn about developing for the proprietary platform.

This work-around doesn’t really get to the root of the fact that Flash is used across the Web as a development tool, but it should at least net a flood of addictive little Flash games for iPhone users.

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