Adobe made it known they intend to bring a Flash player client to the Apple iPhone using the new iPhone SDK unveiled recently by Apple Inc. The Flash player will be will be downloadable via the iTunes Store.

We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone. We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.

- Adobe's Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen

This comes hot on the heels of Steve Jobs explaining that Flash is not available for the iPhone because it is not full featured enough as a Lite mobile application and would not function well as a full version. Evidently Adobe disagrees. Most folks agree Flash on the iPhone would be a huge plus since it has such a degree of acceptance across other devices and is in heavy use on the web.

Some rumors indicate that a disagreement over rendering PDF's on the iPhone is at the heart of the lack of an iPhone Flash player.

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