Adobe is committed to bringing its Flash Player to the iPhone platform a company's executive told during a conference this week.
According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), the company's Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen said that Adobe is currently working on a port of the Flash mobile player which will be made available through the AppStore.
"We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone," Narayen said. "We have evaluated and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves."
Apple introduced the iPhone SDK early this month as well as an exclusive distribution platform called AppStore. However, the program forbids developers to develop software for the mobile version of Safari, which is the case of Flash, which comes as a Safari plug-in.
The iPhone port of Adobe's flash player was probably the subject of negotiations between the two companies. A few weeks ago, Steve Jobs commented that Flash was too heavy for the iPhone for the moment and that the mobile version wasn't full featured.
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