iPhone stats from the Flash Player download center


A little while ago I blogged about our new iPhone page at the Flash Player download center, the same site where hundreds of millions of users download and upgrade Flash every year.

We were amazed by the numbers of hits received from iPhone OS devices, from users seeking the Flash Player to play back rich content from their favourite sites.  Users that, before we created the special page, had no idea that Apple do not want them viewing the Internet as they see it today.

It has now been reported that over 7 million attempts were made by users to download the player by December 2009, that’s up from 3 million attempts in June 2009.

Incredible numbers I think you’ll agree!

  • Dan C

    No, not incredible. And probably mostly fabricated.

    I still haven’t seen any commitment from Adobe that you’re going to get off your a** and fix the bugs in Flash. I see lots of claims about technology and features future releases but nothing about you fixing your basic stability issues.

  • http://www.jappit.com/blog/2010/02/06/apple-doesnt-want-flash-millions-of-iphone-users-do/ Apple doesn’t want Flash, millions of iPhone users do « Jappit.com

    [...] as reported by Mark Doherty, this has been the experience that iPhone users had approximately 7 millions times by  December [...]

  • https://flashmobileblog.com Mark Doherty

    Hi Dan,

    Please remember that there are hundreds of millions of users with Flash installed, over a billion desktops and over a billion mobile phones. There’s really no value in fabricating numbers for the iPhone OS ok?

    You can read a response from our CTO regarding Mac player stability here:
    http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_content_and_app.html#comment-2137153

    As you can imagine we take these issues very seriously and I encourage you to relay your problems to our engineering teams here:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

  • http://sympleton.com Joel Fiser

    ATTENTION:
    After banning Flash’s .SWF format, Steve Jobs issues another decree…

    “In the future, all formats will be banned except for the .JOBS format.”

    According to Jobs, “The .JOBS format will provide for all of your multi-media needs… those other formats were not making me any mon… I mean meeting the needs of the community…”

  • aristophrenia

    Hi Dan C – how many bugs are there in the implementations required to deliver what flash does- in other words the combination of html, javascript, css, PHP / ASP / JAVA (backend etc), FF / IE / CH on MAC / PC / MobOs / Palm / DRIOD / MAEMO / SYMBIAN / TV / SETTOP / DVD / GAME CONSOLE -phew I can tgo on – or FLASH with your ONE BUG which has been pointed out and now corrected ?

    The problem with APPLE is not flash it is APPLE. EVery other operating system can handle flash – but not apple – so is that FLASH or APPLE ?

    Thanks for posting so we all know never to hire you – moron.

  • barry

    I work with as3 on daily basis so don’t get me wrong here but……. I’m sure windows vista is installed on billions of desktop machines….. is it any good , No. Is it riddled with bugs, yes.

    Some times marketing and closed door business deals are more responible for a particular products pervaisiveness than the products mertis alone

  • http://n/a Ian

    Although I read alot about Flash player not being available on the iPhone ( which I admit sucks being a Flash/Flex developer myself) nobody seems to be discussing why Apple would possibly think that it was in its best interests to prevent FlashPlayer from working on its iPhone? Could this have something to do with the App Store? What if instead of needing to download an app to your iPhone you could just browse to a website with it embedded as a swf – just the right size for the iPhone browser? The app might even sit in the Cache meaning that you didn’t have to be online to use it. Eeek that might step around a very valuable revenue source for Apple. Games, Apps podcasts, videos, you could possibly replace the AppStore itself with a nice FlexApp with a payment gateway of some sort.

    Until Adobe acknowledges the reasons why Apple don’t want Flash Player in its iPhone and comes up with a solution that Apple may actually buy into, we are never going to see FlashPlayer on the iPhone. Period.

  • http://www.macmaniacos.com/blog/2010/02/7-milhoes-de-usuarios-de-iphone-querem-o-flash-diz-adobe/ 7 milhões de usuários de iPhone querem o Flash, diz Adobe « Blog MacManíacos

    [...] Adobe divulgou no blog da empresa que o número de usuários do iPhone que já tentaram baixar o Flash Player chega a sete milhões. [...]

  • Bosse nilsson

    HTML5 may be better, I don´t really care. It´s not here NOW and You couldn´t always go for what is to come.

    NOW is Flash Player. Apple – be better! Let Flash be able to work with the iPhone and THEN make a better solution with HTML5 – prove it to us, not just with empty talk. It´s very bad to say that something is bad and not have a better solution. That could be said about almost anything really.

    There are always better solution around the corner. But we are using the iPhone NOW, not tomorrow. The problem with HTML5 is that it would take several years to convert all websites even if it is much better. WE CAN`T WAIT THAT LONG!

    Solution: Flash NOW – HTML5 tomorrow.

  • http://blogg.tkj.se/iphone-flash/ Tommy k Johanssons blogg om datorer & Internet

    Många vill ha Flash till iPhone?…

    Skulle du vilja ha Flash i din iPhone är du inte ensam. Enligt bloggen FlashMobileBlog har det fram till och med december 2009 skett sju miljoner försök att ladda ner Flash till iPhone. Siffran sju miljoner är alltså antalet användare som via iPhones w…

  • A. D. Obe

    If you guys at Adobe would get your asses of the chair and start making bug fixs for mac version of flash, then maybe apple would think that it would be funnier to get flash working?

  • https://flashmobileblog.com Mark Doherty

    If you have issues with the Mac version of Flash Player then please report them on our open reporting system.

  • https://flashmobileblog.com Mark Doherty

    Flash is currently not available for the Apple phone and tablet because they have chosen this for their users, period. Instead Apple have chosen to provide a restricted browsing experience and monetize typically free content via their AppStore, where they tax developers 30%. At Adobe we believe that content providers and developers should be able to make their own choices for distribution and monetization; this is a pillar of the web today.

    Using the Adobe Packager for iPhone it’s possible to create AIR applications that run on their devices. So this enables you to create applications that run on a multitude of devices, although web browsing is heavily restricted by Apple.

  • http://www.hsharma.com/tech Hemanth Sharma

    I am sick of people who just write “fix the bugs on mac” without reporting them.

    +1 with mark on the previous comment. People who crib about bugs on Mac, do report bugs YOURSELF instead of cribbing!

  • http://www.hsharma.com/tech/adobe/flash-player-how-we-test/ Hemanth Sharma – Tech Blog – Flash Player – How We Test…

    [...] Mark. [...]