Walt Mossberg, one of the fortunate few to receive an iPhone prior to its launch, has released an iPhone review on his blog which give us hope that flash player may be included on the iPhone sooner than we thought we could hope for:
At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple of months.
This would of course be great news as it would allow another indirect route of developing applications such as OnSync on this device. Remains to be seen whether will be the full-blown flash player and thereby give the iPhone an edge over other mobile devices such as Nokia’s N95 which merely supports the dumbed down flash player lite.
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I think apple will introduce flash player lite without video, protecting it’s quicktime h264 decoder.