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Adobe Flash: 7m iPhone/iPod Touch users have tried to grab it since December

Adobe and Apple have been battling each other for some time over the lack of lack of Flash on the iPhone. Adobe has made a method of porting Flash apps onto the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad while Steve Jobs recently slammed Flash again. Adobe has fired back with figures showing iPhone users are itching to use Flash on their smartphones…

Mark Doherty of Adobe took to the firm’s Flash Mobile Blog to reveal just how many iPhone and iPod Touch users have been fruitlessly searching for Flash.

Adobe added an iPhone specific page to its download website back in November and Doherty reveals in his blog post just how many iPhone users have navigated to it.

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iPhone Users Want Flash by Millions, Adobe Says

Some 7 million iPhone users have tried to download Flash, according to a Adobe blog post.

Mark Doherty, Flash Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems focused on Mobile and Devices with Flash technologies notes: “A little while ago I blogged about our new iPhone page at the Flash Player download center, the same site where hundreds of millions of users download and upgrade Flash every 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 favorite sites. 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’s iPhone, iPod touch and forthcoming iPad don’t run Flash despite Adobe claiming Flash is currently used in more than 85 per cent of websites, including the BBC, around the world.

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