Adobe’s Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says - CNN.com
Adobe Systems Inc.’s (ADBE) popular media player for cellphones simply isn’t good enough for Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday in the most substantive comments to date about why the iPhone can’t now be used to view a large percentage of videos on the Internet.
Since its debut in June, the mobile Web browser inside the combo phone and digital media player hasn’t been compatible with online videos based on Flash Player, an Adobe-made media player used to view most Internet videos. Web-based videos for the iPhone have to be specially formatted to a file type that Apple endorses. Google Inc.’s (GOOG) YouTube is the only video provider now doing this, and only a handful of videos are available.
As Jobs put it Tuesday, Apple’s iPhone, with all its cutting-edge mobile Internet trickery, needs something much better than the current Flash player that Adobe makes for cellphones. The Flash Player option that fits the bill is made for devices like laptops that are larger than the iPhone; as a consequence, it performs too slowly on the iPhone, he said.
“There’s this missing product in the middle,” Jobs said.
An Adobe spokesman didn’t respond to a message seeking comment. Adobe’s patience appears to be wearing thin.
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