Steve Jobs says "No Flash for the iPhone"

[tedster]

As Jobs put it Tuesday, Apple's iPhone, with all its cutting-edge mobile Internet trickery, needs something much better than the current Flash player that Adobe makes for cellphones...

Based on Jobs' comments, it appears developers and investors will be disappointed Thursday, when some believed Apple would release iPhone software tools that could be used to add Flash to the iPhone.

CNN Money article [money.cnn.com]

[Samizdata]

While there are some Flash-enabled handhelds, the last time I looked they either used Flash-Lite (which is pretty limited) or older versions of Flash with specific markup requirements, and what I suspect is crucial to this argument is that none of them can handle video websites.

If memory serves, the iPhone can use YouTube (which has a special non-Flash section).