The fight and criticize between Adobe Flash and Apple is just like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger!

First, let us take a look at what Apple says about Flash: full of bug, causes system crash, and a lazy company!

And what Apple does to Flash: obviously, Apple refuses Flash to be installed in any of its gadgets, iPod does not have it, iPhone does not have it, the latest iPad does not either.

Here is how Flash defends for itself: Adobe is definitely willing to, and has the power to make Flash applicable to iPhone, iPad and any other Apple product. However, the initiative is in Apple’s hand. Once Apple says Yes, Flash is guaranteed to be browsed smoothly on those devices. Unfortunately, Apple does not seem to do so.

Flash and other partners: the mobile-exclusive Flash 10.2 designed for smartphones is already available, it is supported by almost all other smart mobile phones brands like BlackBerry, Nokia, Google Android and Palm Pre. If they can support Flash, why Apple just can’t?

The real enemy of Flash: The real threat comes from HTML5, especially from the point of video display. Flash now is playing 75% of the videos on the Internet, and once HTML5 comes out, this figure will definitely be shrinking. The worse, HTML5 is promoted by many enterprises including Google. Adobe said they also support the development of HTML5, but it will cause a huge negative influence on the Internet due to the its incompatibility with different browsers.

HTML5 is currently under the development, and the compatible problems will be solved step by step. At present, Flash is no doubt the better video broadcast technology, but HTML5 grows faster as well. HTML itself is a web standard and has many other advantages, which may help win the competition for the long-term perspective.

The efforts Adobe Flash made to keep itself strong: Adobe is trying to please the software developers by promoting its Creative Suite, which can produce all kinds of Flash applications. As long as Flash is still considered the actual standard in video and animation broadcast field, the sales can be guaranteed. However, if Flash application developers turn to make applications for the web site and portable devices like iPhone and iPad using other technology, the competitiveness of Adobe will definitely be threatened. There is no doubt that the company will do its best to protect Flash from collapsing.

The alternative way to make Flash playable on Apple: since the fight between Flash and Apple is still going on, we need a third-party tool that can convert the Flash SWF files to Apple-friendly format MP4. It could be an SWF to iPhone Converter, or an SWF to iPad Converter, or an SWF to iPod Converter, etc.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs ‘ distinct personality makes him to execute the matters he has decided with full force. Take his attitude to Flash for example, once he has publicly expressed his “hatred” to Flash and made it very clear that Apple will not support Adobe software. Now, he proves it with the release of iPhone OS 4.0 SDK. This system modified the developer agreement and completely blocked Flash application on iPhone platform.

It says in the latest iPhone developers license agreement: “application can only use the Apple-approval API, other APIs are not allowed. Applications can only be compiled with Objective-C, C, C + + or JavaScript, only the C, C + + and Objective-C code can be connected directly to official APIs (it is prohibited to invoke official APIs via intermedia program, compatible layer and any compatible tools). ”

This, almost pronounces the sentence of death for Adobe ‘ plan to promote Flash to iPhone. Despite of the fact that Apple may not support Flash, Adobe has announced in 2009 MAX that there will be Packager for iPhone which can be used by Flash developers to create local iPhone applications. This package will be included in the upcoming Flash Pro CS5.

Adobe says, the development of new technology can help developers to create applications for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, so that they can approach Apple indirectly. What a pity, everything is in vain now.

For common users like you and me, we can use the third-party programs to make flash SWF playable on iPhone and other Apple products. Thank God, a kind of complementarity that we can use to enjoy the fabulous Flash on fabulous gadgets.