Apple has just posted a job ad recruiting low level programmer for iPhone familiar with the ARMv7 family. According to MacRumors, this means faster CPU (currently it’s ARMv6) and bringing video related functions to iPhone. But this is late May already. These functions are less likely to make it to the July release this year. Will this be a software upgarde later, meaning iPhone third generation is already using this ARMv7 CPU or it’s targeting for the fourth generation iPhone in 2010?!
Flash is coming to iPhone for real?
Bloomberg.com reports that Adobe is working (with Apple?) to bring Flash to iPhone finally.
“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
Well, we’ll see about that. It’s been a long time since Adobe & ARM announced their partnership back a few months ago. I guess it’ll be a slow process provided that it’s made for performance on ARM devices, iPhone particularly.
Adobe & ARM announced to bring Flash & AIR to ARM platform
Today Adobe and ARM announced their plan to bring Flash and AIR to ARM 11 family in the second half of 2009. Why is it interesting? Coz iPhone is also using ARM 11 family, and Steve Jobs said Flash is no good for iPhone so to speak.
We’ll be seeing an very interesting future on mobile platform particularly iPhone. Could Flash 10 make it to iPhone v3.0? If so, will Uncle Steve enable the technology for the new iPhone? If Uncle Steve did enable Flash, will there be raging iPhone 1.0 & 2.0 users suing non-sense?!