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I take that back... it is great for viewing a youTube video that's a bit cumbersome to find on the youTube iPhone app, but does nothing to actually convert video for watching. I still wish for the 'Flash lite' option. "However, given that the iPhone’s filesystem is not user accessible, I’m not sure how they’ll implement it. As usual, we’re just going to have to wait and watch." If somebody does make a Flash Lite app, they could do the same as this iTransmogrify person did, and have a bookmarklet system that would auto-launch their application with the Flash movie's params loaded. At least, it seems to be possiable to me :)

As far as Flash and Java go, I think that the iPhone could the former and ditch the latter, and only a subset of the former's features at that. What subset could I wish for my future iPhone above all others? FLV playback! Sure, the iPhone has support for a very nice codec, but with the majority of non-special-YouTube and non-Apple videos on the web (at least, the ones Mr. Typical iPhone User would care about) being in Flash, such a player, even a separate app, would be a nice addition to the app store. *This* at least is, I would think based on other apps demoed by Apple, within the confines of the SDK, though I havn't yet taken a look at it (I'm currently a mac-boy-wannabe with XP). If Adobe is dead-set on Flash on the iPhone, I would not be supprised if they talked with Apple about enabling the iPod feature of the iPhone to play back limited flash content (flv's and homestar-runner-esq swf's). If all else fails, there are plenty of utilities that will convert flash to whatever. If I had enough coding prowess, i would write something that would auto-add the converted vids to iTunes, unless somebody already has. Whatever the case, I will be getting an iPhone as soon as some other financial goals are met, and flash issn't a deal-breaker for me. Would sure as heck be nice, though other features such as hard-disk access are more wanted, personally ;)