I've been told the opposite side of this story from ex-Adobe employees on Hacker News: that Apple had asked for a mobile build and source code, but assigned the

I've been told the opposite side of this story from ex-Adobe employees on Hacker News: that Apple had asked for a mobile build and source code, but assigned the porting job to an intern who couldn't even get it to compile. They jokingly called it "Project Boomerang" because of how often things got sent back to them[0]. In fairness to Apple, I can only imagine what horrors lurk in Flash Player's build system. This was also in early iPhone days when most senior engineers would have been tasked with making sure Steve's iPhone demos didn't crash. So you could say that they tried to make it work but it wasn't a priority for Apple, in the same way that it wasn't a priority for Adobe. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36732094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36732094