Adobe and Apple have been battling each other for some time over the lack of lack of Flash on the iPhone. Adobe has made a method of porting Flash apps onto the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad while Steve Jobs recently slammed Flash again. Adobe has fired back with figures showing iPhone users are itching to use Flash on their smartphones…

Mark Doherty of Adobe took to the firm’s Flash Mobile Blog to reveal just how many iPhone and iPod Touch users have been fruitlessly searching for Flash.

Adobe added an iPhone specific page to its download website back in November and Doherty reveals in his blog post just how many iPhone users have navigated to it.

He says: “We were amazed by the number of hits received from iPhone OS devices, from users seeking [Adobe Flash Player] to play back rich content from their favourite sites. Users that, before we created the special page, had no idea that Apple do not want them viewing the Internet as they see it today.”

Adobe Flash support is one of the 10 missing iPad features we’d like to see Apple deal with. Is the lack of Flash on your iPhone driving you mad?

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  • TWoods

    It’s about time Apple and Adobe put away their differences, whatever they may be, and work together to integrate a great piece of software with a great device…..What a pain for us users….

  • Patrick

    I hope the iPhone 3gs can do flash.
    I have a HP DM 1010sa notebook with a 1.2GHZ ULV Dual Core Celeron
    2gb DDR 3 yes 3 ram, Intel 4500 MHD
    It can do 1920*1080 HD footage from a Sony camcorder and yet it cannot do flash at a decent speed. unable to play flash games on facebook on it

    So god knows how a iPhone can do it…

  • Chughes

    After 3 billion apps downloaded, 140K+ apps in the App Store, and 75Million iPhones sold, i hardly think we are in pain here missing the proprietary, CPU & memory-hogging Flash. On the contrary, i’m happy Apple is not budging on Adobe’s steadfast refusal to fix its many issues with Flash.

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