Jobs Says Flash Video Not Suitable for iPhone

Lev13than writes "Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone won't be using Adobe Systems' Inc.'s popular Flash media player any time soon, saying the technology doesn't meet his company's performance standards for video. Jobs said the version of Flash formatted to personal computers is too slow on the iPhone while the mobile version of the media player is "is not capable of being used with the web." The comments come a day before Apple is set to introduce the company's plan for iPhone SDK, the software developers kit which will allow third-party developers to create applications that can work in conjunction with the popular handheld device."

Re:Can't say that I disagree

[Riktov]

I get jerking on even fully buffered flash video in both WindowsXP and Linux using Adobe's Flash plugin.

Me, if the chicks are hot and the action's good, I get jerking regardless of format or buffering...

A: Because it disturbs the flow of a message

[DNS-and-BIND]

Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line irritating?

Re:Can't say that I disagree

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd hate to see what happens in the event of a buffer overflow...

Microsoft to the rescue!

[Mongoose Disciple]

Flash can't do the job on the iPhone? Sounds like a job for Silverlight!

*crickets*

Re:Another way of saying that

[elrous0]

more about giving them the best experience possible

I guess that explains why they went with AT&T.

Re:Not surprised

[danwat1234]

I can't watch youtube videos in full-screen mode on my Dell D610 laptop (Pentium M Dothan 1.86GHz, 2GB RAN) without usually having to pause it in order for the CPU utilization to stop from being so high that the player won't be able to download the streaming video fast enough to keep up with the playback. Weird run-on sentence, no?