Adobe claims 7 million attempted Flash downloads via iPhone

Posted in iPhone News by admin. Published February 12th, 2010

Adobe claims 7 million attempted Flash downloads via iPhone

Millions of people have unsuccessfully tried to download Flash Player for the iPhone and iPod touch, claims an Adobe PR person, Mark Doherty.

The company recently posted a warning at the Flash Player download site, which informs iPhone OS users that Apple has restricted the technologies needed to make Flash work on their hardware. Doherty notes that by December 2009, as many as 7 million iPhone users had tried to download Flash. Figures had reached 3 million by June of that year.

“We were amazed by the numbers of hits received from iPhone OS devices, from users seeking the Flash Player to play back rich content from their favourite sites,” says Doherty. “Users that, before we created the special page, had no idea that Apple do not want them viewing the Internet as they see it today.”

Apple and Adobe are increasingly at odds over Flash’s absence on the former’s handhelds. Adobe insists that without Flash, iPhone and iPod users are unable to see most of the video on the web, as well as many games and other Flash applications. Apple has complained about factors like battery consumption and stability; CEO Steve Jobs is in fact said to have called Adobe “lazy,” suggesting that HTML5 is a better solution for video.

[Thanks: http://www.ipodnn.com]