Adobe CEO: ‘Collaborating’ With Apple To Get Flash On The iPhone
Is Apple (AAPL) helping Adobe (ADBE) get its Flash animation and video plugin on the iPhone? That's what it sounds like, based on Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen's comments in Davos.
“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.
But what does "collaborating" mean in this sense? Hard to tell based on Bloomberg's Web report.
It could mean that Apple is giving Adobe access to the iPhone that other companies don't get via the iPhone App Store. (This would be necessary if Flash were to work as a Safari plugin, the way it does on the Mac.)
Or, as Daring Fireball's John Gruber writes, "Another way to read it is that 'collaborating', without any details of what that collaboration entails, is just an empty word that could mean anything."
