Adobe Suspends Flash Development for iPhone

Mike Chambers, one of the most important persons inside Adobe and Flash development, posted about the iPhone compatibility. They are suspending indefinitely the development of Flash to work with iPhone.

Not only that, Chambers also says that they are going to focus their attention in the Android platform: “Personally, I am going to shift all of my mobile focus from iPhone to Android based devices (I am particularly interested in the Android based tablets coming out this year) and not focus on the iPhone stuff as much anymore.”

Adobe is definitely not happy regarding the treatment they’ve received from Apple, and Mike also has some comments about it:

• “However, as developers for the iPhone have learned, if you want to develop for the iPhone you have to be prepared for Apple to reject or restrict your development at any time, and for seemingly any reason. “
• “I think that the closed system that Apple is trying to create is bad for the industry, developers and ultimately consumers, and that is not something that I want to actively promote.”
• “There have already been a couple of developers who have moved their Flash based content from the iPhone to Flash on Android (couple of examples below) and I expect that this is a trend we will be seeing more and more of.”

Clear enough?

Apple’s going to focus in HTML5, that’s probably the main reason of this dispute; but in the meanwhile I guess we are going to have to get use to those blue legos.