Adobe and ARM announced Monday that the two companies will be collaborating on optimizing Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR to operate on ARM-powered devices. The optimized software will focus specifically on devices powered by the ARM11 family of processors, Apple’s iPhone (currently) being among these.

The collaboration is expected to accelerate the mobile graphics and video capabilities found on ARM-equipped platforms to bring Net applications and web services to mobile devices.

As of now, the project is

expected to be finished by the second half of 2009. Though the statement released by the companies doesn’t specifically mention the iPhone, the iPhone does use a similar processor and could see changes at the end of the project.

whether that works out, there’s a sporting chance that that could finally mean Flash for the iPhone is en route and whether the optimization project pays off, thereupon it could mean Flash web apps […]

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