More than 6 years after Steve Jobs published an angry article on the Apple website, today we have a clear explanation of the real reason why iOS does not play flash content through the Safari browser , as happens in most mobile platforms competing with Apple's.
In 2010, Steve Jobs listed a variety of reasons why flash would not be supported on the iPhone, but the reality is that Apple tested Adobe's software in its own terminals. This is perfectly normal and understandable, considering the fact that a decision of this kind could not be taken without thoroughly analyzing its implications for everyone.
Although Steve Jobs didn't say it at the time, the real reason why flash doesn't work on the iPhone was revealed by an engineer who worked at Apple until 2008. According to him, Steve Jobs didn't believe that Adobe was capable of solving the security problems of flash in good time after their discovery, which is as true as it can be.
Why flash doesn't work on iPhone, the real reason
Steve Jobs was also upset because the president of Adobe did not answer his phones, and that's how he understood that Adobe cannot solve the flash problems to provide high security for the iPhone. Steve Jobs was convinced that the flash problems could be solved by software, but in the absence of support from Adobe, he decided not to implement flash in Safari.
"In 2008, Apple tested support for Flash on iPhone. I personally used Pandora's Flash client. He conceded that fixing bugs in the software were mere engineering problems. However, without an open dialog with Adobe, he couldn't count on them doing it.."
Although the world laughed at Steve Jobs and harshly criticized him for the decision not to offer flash support in the iPhone, everything he said then was known to everyone in Silicon Valley. Moreover, now everyone runs away from flash and disables it in browsers, so in the end Steve Jobs was right about this software.
