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** UPDATE. Seems my friend “WL” has either scammed me and everyone else, had his app rejected and didn’t want to fess up, or has been contacted by Adobe Legal Either way, his blog post has now been removed. **

I received a comment on my InsideRIA blog this morning from a developer (“WL”) who has posted on his own iPhone-related blog that he has created a custom installer for “Adobe Flash mobile” for Safari …

Great news everybody.  For the past few months I have been working on an app called “Flash Installer” that does exactaly what you would think it does. Installs Adobe Flash mobile for use in Safari and all UIWebViews (when a web page opens up in an app). It does this by targeting files in the webView and tweaking a .plist and installing my custom made plugin. It was extremely hard to do this and not break any rules. After a lot of thinking, I have decided to make Flash Installer free.

More than a few questions sprung to mind when I read this, not the least was Apple’s response to this submission. The developer claims that this doesn’t break any SDK guidelines or rules (and I don’t know all of them personally) but I fail to see how Apple would allow a third party application to modify Safari on an iPhone to run a third party player that they have been very vocal about not needing (as far as I can tell, Apple seems determined to keep Flash OUT of the iPhone browser)

Going on the comments made after this post, there’s more than a few of us that are sceptical about the success of a submission to the App Store of this nature. Even with the App Store’s absimal record with their submission process, I can’t see this one slipping through the cracks. Will try and follow up anyway and see what happens.