Adobe has taken Flash one step further recently with the development of the Flash Player 10.1.  Through the development done by the Open Screen Project, which Adobe is part of along with 40+ other companies, Flash has now reached the stage where it can successfully run on a large range of mobile devices.

The new flash upgrade will also bring along multi touch support, gestural based input, an accelerometer and screen orientation feedback.  A heavy amount of work has been done to ensure that all of these features do not burn though a devices battery, available bandwidth and device memory.

Together, all these new features could be making you think “perfect for the iPhone”.  Sadly no, Apple are still barring the Open Screen Project from developing for the iPhone.

Simple reasoning behind this is the iTunes App Store business model.  As soon as Flash comes to Safari for the iPhone developers will be able to start making web applications that function within the mobile browser, completely bypassing the App Store.

Along with all these mobile Flash developments come a number of desktop improvements.  The major one being the addition of GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration, the addition of this will greatly increase the speed of HD rendering in Flash video players.  So expect to see this soon on YouTube and BBC iPlayer.