Flash arriving on iPhone and iPad for real thanks to Skyfire

By Edwin Kee on 11/02/2010 06:38 PDT

Looks like owners of the iPhone and iPad need not wait any more to view Flash videos on their respective devices, thanks to the availability of Skyfire which will be available for download for $2.99 a pop from Thursday onwards. This is the first application of its kind to be approved by Apple for distribution in its App Store, which is rather surprising considering how Apple and Adobe has had spats in the past. Still, the easing of restrictions on such applications does not mean Apple supports content encoded in Adobe’s Flash for its iOS devices.

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iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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