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Flash Coming to the iPhone

Support for Adobe Flash is high on the list of iPhone browser improvements I’ve been yearning for. According to Gear Live, the wait is nearly over. As rumors go, this one is pretty plausible, as is the author’s speculation that the launch will be timed to coincide with the release of the official iPhone SDK later this month. With offline storage in the pipeline as well, we’re getting ever closer to the point where real applications can be deployed on the iPhone using web technologies. In fact, the official SDK may end up being used primarily by infrastructure and tool vendors, whose products will beef up Mobile Safari to the point where other developers won’t need a native SDK.