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I’ve known about this since the original iPhone release on 2007/06/29, but I wasn’t sure if it was still true today.  Well apparently it still is.

> Adobe has promised betas of a mobile-ready Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile and Palm Pre late this year, and early next year for Android, Symbian, and BlackBerry phones, as well as NVIDIA-powered netbooks. The only hold-out? The iPhone, of course.
– 2009/10/05, http://lifehacker.com/5374437/flash-arriving-by-year+end-on-every-smartphone-except-iphones

> The iPhone supports neither Flash nor Java.  Consequently, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority adjudicated that an advertisement claiming the iPhone could access “all parts of the internet” should be withdrawn in its current form, on grounds of false advertising.
– wikipedia

Well they have a very popular SDK and app store, which does stuff native, and I can definitely see the argument that by not having Java and Flash, it encourages more native iPhone OS applications, which in some ways provides an overall better experience…  so maybe it’s forgivable O:-)

The disappointment is just because it really does mean that a lot of the web doesn’t work on iPhone OS.

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