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Jobs says Flash just doesn't cut the mustard and won't show up on the iPhone [1] [2].
Does that mean we will see Silverlight running on the iPhone first? There are some rumors... [3] [4]
[1] http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200803041742DOWJONESDJONLINE000829_FORTUNE5.htm
[2] http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/05/steve_jobs_pans_flash_on_the_iphone.html
[3] http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/03/05/scott-guthrie-hints-at-silverlight-on-iphone/
[4] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/microsoft-mix-keynote-one-live-from-las-vegas/
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I've been pondering this disruption in the force also today. One other tidbit: Install the Beta2 of Microsoft Expression Media. One of the options is to install Quicktime to "enable additional file formats and functionality". The "yes" option is recommended by the installer.
I could be wrong, but I thought that the EULA for the iPhone SDK prohibited the developer from writing what amounts to a runtime environment (this is what is keeping Java and Flash off of the iPhone currently). Wouldn't this apply to Silverlight as well?
I don't think EULA for the iPhone SDK is a problem. If Microsoft and Apple agree they can do whatever they want. Microsoft is Apple's shareholder after all.
Here is the thing, Silverlight is Microsoft's ticket to make PocketPC platform as funky as IPhone. If they could port silverlight to pocketpc many developers can write jazzy apps for pocket pc.
MS's priority will be porting Silverlight to PocketPc not Iphone.
Looks to me like its the same old story. Create a bunch of extra work for the open source community to circumvent what are painfully obvious omissions to software. The iPhone is the mother of painfully obvious omissions. Cut & Paste, A2DP Profile, Browser plug-ins, MMS. There are a plethora of excuses and reasons for leaving these things out, none of them good and all of them irrelevant.
My opinion is this. I've paid for the damn thing now get out of the way and let me do with it as I please. Let me assume my own risk of it performing bad if I want. After all, I did pay for it didn't I? I do own it don't I? Apple really needs to learn there lesson here.