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Adobe for iPod touch?

Asked by AirJelly (5points) August 16th, 2009

Do anyone know if it´s possible to download the flash player for iPod touch or iPhone. So many videos are using the flash player but the iPod only have Quick Time…

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jrpowell's avatar

Nope. You can’t install it.

The only phone to have it is the HTC Hero. But it sucks.

Flash video playback is so atrociously slow that it doesn’t even look like video — it looks like a slideshow of still images. Shocking, I know.

The CPU’s (and batteries) in phones just aren’t good enough for Flash yet. The iPhone has a custom chip outside of the CPU that handles decoding MP4 video.

edit :: I should add that some phones have support for Flash Lite.

Lightlyseared's avatar

There’s probably also some marketing thing going on there too. Why should Apple go to the effort of supporting another companies video product when they have their own.

GIFTownP's avatar

no. It never has been, and if it could, it would already be on your iPhone, because the WebKit-based iPhone Safari browser has no framework for custom, standalone app-based plugins.

styfle's avatar

It may eventually but Apple wants adobe to make an iphone/ipod specific version of flash since flash lite is too…lite, and normal flash will kill it.

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