Don’t Look for Flash on the iPhone Anytime Soon

Adobe has been working on developing Flash support for a variety of mobile phones, including the iPhone. But don’t expect to play Flash games or watch Hulu on Apple’s smartphone anytime soon.
If Apple were to allow Flash on the iPhone, they would give up a ton of control. Anyone could create Flash apps for the iPhone and simply throw them on a website. Developers of Flash apps would have no need to go through the iTunes App Store to get their application distributed to the phone, let alone go through the approval process.
Apple’s Terms of Service Agreement for iPhone developers has language that bars the use of any outside plug-ins or APIs, effectively ruling out Flash being supported on the phone.
Britain’s advertising standards committee forced Apple to pull an iPhone advertisement in August that stated “All parts of the internet are on the iPhone.” The committee claimed the ad used false advertising due to the phone’s lack of Flash support.
If Flash support in a mobile is important to you, stay with Windows Mobile or Android, who don’t seem to care about possible conflicts of interest. In the future all phones will inevitably support Flash, but for now it doesn’t look like Apple is budging anytime soon.