Skyfire was on the Apple App Store for a grand total of 5 hours before inventory was wiped out. Blame it on iPhone owners desire to watch Flash videos.
Proponents of Adobe Flash insist that Apple's iPhone 4.0 restrictions amount to "restraint of trade," that the company's Flash platform covers the vast majority of computers, that Adobe doesn't need Apple and could bury it by cutting off its apps for the Mac in retaliation, that Apple really owes Adobe a hand, and that by not offering Flash, Apple is violating a universal doctrine demanding Choice. They're wrong, here's why.
Modality Inc.'s big break came calling via mobile phone.
Right after Apple Inc. announced in March that it would allow software developers to build applications for its new iPhone 3G, Modality, of Durham, N.C., got busy.