Odds Apollo Can Run on the new iPhone? I’d Say Pretty Good

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If you haven’t seen it yet, the new iPhone looks awesome. The press out of MacWorld has been crazy, and the iPhone is probably the biggest news. But what makes it most interesting for me is that the phone is running OSX and has the webkit engine as well as Safari right on the phone.

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What does this mean? Well, in theory, Apollo could very easily be ported over to the iPhone. I’m not sure if the version of OSX for the phone is crippled in any way (I would assume so) but since the goal all along was to bring Apollo to mobile devices, this seems like it would be a great partnership.

The other thing I wondered about is if we’ll see “WPF/E” on the iPhone. It would be another video codec (so the iPhone could have Flash, QuickTime and Windows Media) as well as the possibility of writing managed code for the OSX version of iPhone. Fun times ahead.

[tags]Apple, iPhone, Adobe, Apollo, WPF/E[/tags]

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  • JulesLt

    Have you watched the videos on the Apple site – check out the ‘Maps’ application for a fantastic example of a mobile RIA. Looks like Apple do have an RIA strategy after all.
    From the videos it looks like it’s using Leopard technologies (Core Animation in particular) so I presume we have native PDF + WebKit so a lot of what Apollo can offer is there either way. (You can see a similar live scale and rotation of a web page as the Apollo demos too)

    Next question : As they said – these are ‘real desktop apps’ developed in OS X. I wonder how open the device will be to installing third party apps and widgets – and what that would do for OS X development (I’m guessing the installed base of iPhones will be a magnitude higher than Macs – businesses will never go Mac, but business users are going to love this phone as much as consumers, and that means a market for business apps).

    Final question : All those visual effects will take power – wonder what the battery life will be. I guess that – unlike a laptop – you’ll be mostly using to show something fixed.

    Best thought : This is version 1 . . .

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  • http://twmug.com jeremy

    running Apollo pretty much equal to running normal desktop flash player on the phone, which would require a lot of processing power, I would bet Flashlite 2.1 might have better chances.

    but, having Apollo on iPhone, would surely, be a huge huge plus and this is the kinda of phone I will definitely buy one without even thinking twice :-)

  • nz

    Apple might want to promote their own development platform on it

    but yer Apollo, Flash or Flashlite will be awesome

  • http://thefalken.livejournal.com Tom Chiverton

    On what ? A phone that isn’t nearly as innovative as was pretended in the key note, and is over priced as well ?
    My several years old SE P900 did everything bar the WiFi, and my current phone *does* do all that was demo’ed, and was under a hundred UKP.
    The trouble with Flash will be sheer CPU power. The Apple phone may have enough if it is really running OS X. Which I doubt. It’ll be OS X mobile edition or something, maybe sharing a few components with the desktop, maybe not.

  • Chris Jenkins

    to say that your phone does everything the iPhone does is nonsense, thats like saying a 50 year old car does the same as a brand new one, sure it drives, but not in the same way, The iPhone is all about interface and integration and there’s nothing out there to rival the iPhone in terms of these things.

  • http://thefalken.livejournal.com Tom Chiverton

    My phone is intergrated – I can tap a phone number of web address in an SMS and save it to a new or old contact, open in the web browser (Opera, since you ask, makes a fine job of web sites and even has a landscape mode) etc.
    It’s a perfectly good rival.

  • http://www.iambright.com Rey Bango

    According to Steve Job’s, it doesn’t look like Flex, CF or any other 3rd app will be allowed to run on the iPhone:

    http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/0430200&from=rss

    Thats truly disappointing.

    Rey

  • http://thefalken.livejournal.com Tom Chiverton

    Oops. Worse than useless.
    Now my phone does *more* than the iPhone, hurrah !

  • http://www.iambright.com Rey Bango

    More info that points to the iPhone not running OS X:

    http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/13/1746234&from=rss

    Again, very disappointing as I also saw the iPhone as an awesome mobile development platform.

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