Apple has a point with the technical issues it cites. A compiled version of Flash would address them. However, if Apple needed to block it for the "strategic" r

Apple has a point with the technical issues it cites. A compiled version of Flash would address them. However, if Apple needed to block it for the "strategic" reasons given in the article, it could find a way. Come to think of it, I reckon Flash requires a virtual machine to operate (a compiled version would need to overcome some fundamental architectural issue). Assuming that's true, CS5 wouldn't produce a compiled version at all, but a standalone flash player for the iPhone plus the code and data. This would have the same technical problems as before. Therefore, it would be equally easy for Apple to justify blocking it, and equally easy to implement that blocking (by disallowing virtual machines, because they are potentially programmable like that C64 emulator).