Monday, August 27, 2007

Apps Vendors Target iPhone Video

Apple has taken some heat over the iPhone's limited support for video formats, specifically an inability to display Flash videos. Adobe may or may not be fixing that problem soon, but certainly needs to make Flash more mobile friendly. (Flash is an overused technology, but don't get me started.)

Social networking site KickApps is trying to lure more members by optimizing videos for the iPhone. The site will automatically convert Flash videos to Quicktime so that they can be displayed on the iPhone's Safari browser.

The iPhone is barely out of the womb, but the pressure is on to make it more versatile, hence the hacking to make it run on other phone networks.

One of the unwritten laws of being a bleeding edge early adopter is that you pay twice what people will pay in 18 months for a product or service that isn't fully cooked or compatible with industry standards.

By John Gartner at 11:13 AM | Comments (0)

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