04-08-2010, 10:43 PM
deckeda wrote:
I missed this. How was creating an iPhone app with Adobe's upcoming tools going to circumvent or be an alternative to the AppStore?
It's not so much that the upcoming tools would cause this, but that blocking Flash to begin with does. Right now the only way to get much of the functionality of Flash is to make it an App. If it's an App, it has to be on the AppStore. If they let the iPhone play Flash, people could develop many of the same apps and games without having to let Apple be the middle man.
If CS5 allowed people to build iPhone apps, they could theoretically make it just a wrapper for Flash and thus circumvent the AppStore with embedded apps.