Adobe Systems has been working towards creating the Flash technology onto the Apple iPhone, but the work seems to never end.

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen acknowledged that till now they are not able to find a workable version of Flash for the iPhone. He was talking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen told Bloomberg Television. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”

The collaboration between the two companies dates back to March 2008, when Adobe first confirmed working on to bring Flash apps to the iPhone. Even then Adobe said it will be a hard job to do.As Adobe said at the time: “To bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone Web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK (the iPhone software development kit) and the current license around it.”

Hope of getting a Flash app for iPhone in March were extinguished by Steve Jobs when he said that the PC version of Flash performed too slow to be useful and the Flash Lite version for mobile phones was not useful to use with the Web.

In November, Adobe talked about pushing the boundaries to broaden the use of Flash on mobile phones and so we hope to see Flash working on our mobile phones.

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