Apple: Please Enable Flex applications on my iPhone

Posted by rmcdonald

February 9, 2008

If you are an early adopter like me, you know there are certain things you can overlook with any new technology you adopt.. for a while. This doesn’t exclude one of the most innovative companies of our time Apple.

I got an iPhone within a month of their release, and for the most part have been very pleased with it. That being said, there are a couple of limitations that I can only keep defending for so long before I have to start to consider the move back to my Blackberry.

The first is the lack of Exchange support in the iPhone, which is critical to getting support from the business market. I have been able to cover for this glaring omission by using Visto Mobile, albeit it adds another $10/mo. to my mobile phone bill.

The second is the lack of support for the Flash player in the iPhone’s Safari browser. It’s bad enough that I cannot view Flash-enabled web sites, but the thing that bothers me more is the inability to use Flex-based applications. Don’t get me wrong there are plenty of fine iPhone based applications that I use regularly, i.e. Shredder Chess, Google Mobile, iDo to name a few, but their static pages seem out of place with the rich UI of the iPhone. In my opinion, enabling rich internet applications built with Flex would make the iPhone the most best mobile phone in the world.

I beg of you Steve, please give me support for the Flash player on my iPhone so I won’t have to consider the Blackberry ever again.

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