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A Thought on Flash iPhone Apps

I’ve been thinking a bit about the news of Adobe’s Flash CS5 being able to convert/compile (whatever the term is in this case) .SWFs into .IPAs. Now there are obvious concerns like performance and battery life when running these apps. There’s also concerns about a flood of crappy flash apps (as if there already isn’t enough crappy cocoa touch apps) on the app store. But another thought came to mind regarding this recent news.

I began to imagine flash development firms (and freelancers for that matter) marketing themselves as iPhone developers and winning clients over with cheaper development costs. Will we start to see more iPhone apps built with Flash than in Cocoa Touch? Will the average consumer even know the difference? Will this hurt Cocoa developers who are doing client work for the iPhone Platform?

What about non-native user interfaces? Will that get out of control? (I totally understand the irony of that coming from me.) I don’t have any answers. Just things I’ve been thinking about.

Is Flash the new Java?

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