Here’s an app made with Flash CS5 and it’s only 7.7 megs: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chroma-circuit/id331078068?mt=8 It’s gone through 2 updates and improvements were basically speed. Also I linked to this game as Apple included in as one of their featured apps in the iTunes store, likely not realizing it was made with Flash CS5.

There’s a number of other iPhone apps that got good reviews and sold quite well.

So it doesn’t seem to be technical reasons that Flash based apps are going to be rejected, instead it seems to be purely business reasons.

They do have a version of Flash for unlocked phones, don’t they? Wait, they don’t? So how is anyone saying Flash works?

Adobe’s profit center is on the tools. Apple’s is on the platform. So the equivalent of swapping the tools is simply buying a different phone.

I keep coming back to the idea that someone at Adobe thought that 10+MB sample applications were acceptable. One of them was a stopwatch, right? So they posted a stopwatch that weighs in at 13MB. So far from arguing with Apple, I’d like to thank them for keeping shovelware like that out of the store.

That said since 3rd party tools are now banned for iPhone development, I imagine other companies will look at converting Objective-C to say Java to create an Android app.

Also note that unlike Apple, Adobe does allow 3rd party tools to create Flash content. The Flex SDK can compile any ActionScript code down to SWF and other companies have used it to build their own Flash tools. Adobe employees have even sometimes commented quite positively on the FDT ActionScript editor that competes directly with their Flash Builder 4.

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The parts you need to know about C to learn Objective-C are mostly simple enough that I already knew most of them just from accessing stuff I needed to in C from my Pascal projects.

Which is why the only real approach to learning Objective-C to burry yourself in it.