<i>Apple’s restriction on Flash content running in the browser on iOS devices remains in place</i><p>Yeah right. More like: Adobe's incapacity to build a suitable mobile Flash plugin, one that doesn't suck and which won't make the web experience feel like walking through molasses, remains in place.
Apple still call the tune here, and can bring in further anti-Flash restrictions at any time they choose, retrospectively if they want. However, it's completely worth Adobe's while to react immediately in this fashion. That seems scary to me.
There is an interesting comment:<p><i>"Looks like the new policy would allow to have VM included in the app itself. Why not focus instead on the VM instead of this as3 to native code conversion (sure the innovation in one can already help the other but still it’s the VM which since in need of a bit more love)."</i> [1]<p>Now that Apple allows interpreters (as long as they run code packaged embedded in the app), I wonder if this approach would be easier for Adobe to maintain than the AS3-to-assembly compilation they do now. Arbitrary SWFs could be paired as data with a standard interpreter app.<p>EDIT: I suppose this would make the packager a lot more like AIR for Android( <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/android/" rel="nofollow">http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/android/</a>).<p>[1]: <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/09/great-news-for-developers.html#comment-1250" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/09/great-news-for-...</a>
Adobe posted a packager refresher for iPhone.<p>"Now that we are once again committed to the iOS platform, we will work on tools and frameworks to make developing iOS applications much easier. I’m currently using early versions of these projects for Android development, and they are extremely easy to use and help to create a very efficient developer workflow."<p><a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2010/09/packager-for-iphone-refresher.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2010/09/packager-fo...</a>
"Adobe will continue to work to bring full web browsing with Flash Player 10.1"<p>So, according to Adobe, by browsing with flash disabled, I'm missing out on the full web experience?<p>Funny, I don't notice anything missing except a crapton of ads.<p>On another note, I do hope that browsers will add the option to selectively enable/disable html5 audio/video, because that'll also get rid of ads coming in the future.