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Adobe Gets Sharky Snarky With Apple’s iPhone Flash Ban

Pulling a Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers, Adobe shows its darkest side screaming and pointing the finger at Apple in this Flash installation web page for iPhone users.

Their razor-sharp message:

Flash Player not available for your device. Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod touch.

Bad Adobe BAD! Next time, please put this in every single Adobe Flash box inside every single page using Flash on the web? [Check it here from your iPhone via Gear Diary]

Comments (AU Comments | US Comments)

  • Andrew

    Its been a long awaited feature,
    Many sites require flash for proper viewing, and not to mention my dream of being able to sue newgrounds on my iphone :P

  • If the iPhone supported HTML5 then there wouldn’t be a need for flash to be installed would there?

    • Glenn

      Safari on the iPhone already has HTML5, Google use HTML5 extensively for G-Mail, Latitude, Wave, and many others. Why don’t other sites use it?

      I think the sites need to stop using proprietary systems like flash and PDF, there are open alternatives freely available now and business should stop paying the “Adobe Tax”

  • Wok

    Once other similar devices catch up to iPhone(and they are very close), this is one feature that will make me ditch the iPhone.

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