The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real, BREW, Symbian

If I were Steve Jobs, I'd get Adobe and Microsoft into a bidding war over whether the iPhone will run Flash or Silverlight. If (a) the two are close in power, (b) all browsers can run either, (c) the iPhone runs only one, and (d) the iPhone is very popular, then the one the iPhone doesn't run dies.<p>(a) seems to be true, (b) is currently true, modulo install, and (d) looks likely. So if Apple decided to make (c) true, they could probably anoint a winner.

Good article. One thing it says resonates with me--the part about developers choosing to avoid flash since the iPhone won't support it. Our app has reporting and charting as a main feature and some of the best charting components are flash-based. I've already decided to find something else (JS/CSS/whatever) so that it can run on the iPhone.

I don't think what the iphone supports will matter much in the long run, it's what devices like these nokias that will have the biggest impact on the future of mobile <a href="http://www.nokia.com/A4405104" rel="nofollow">http://www.nokia.com/A4405104</a>

The most pointless article ever. Mobile phones are not new things! iPhone is just another mobile phone.No one is going to stop developing in Flash or Java just because it doesn't work on iPhone. Those who wanna cater to the iPhone market will make a "watered down version" of the app. Just the way an m site is developed for mobile browser.Thats it.

So it will take 1 (one) must-have application written in Flash or Java to make iPhone buyers look like fools? Sounds okay to me.