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Checkmate for Adobe Flash on iPhone 4.0?

10 April 2010
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Apple’s iPhone 4.0 preview on Thursday came with a buried surprise in the developer agreement. If they want to make software for the iPhone 4.0, developers must use only Apple’s proprietary tools, which could spell doom for Adobe’s upcoming Flash CS5 software that will compile iPhone-compatible apps.

The paragraph in question in the new Apple developer agreement, first noticed by John Gruber of the Daring Fireball blog, says that the Cupertino company will not approve apps into the App Store unless they are built using its proprietary software.

Basically, this would mean that apps built with third-party compilers, such as Adobe’s upcoming Flash-to-iPhone compiler, would not be accepted into the App Store. The new rules are a direct blow to Adobe’s Flash CS5, which is due release next week on April 12. The iPhone app compiler in Flash CS5 is flagged as a landmark feature in the new software.

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