Adobe Systems’ Sr. Director of Engineering, Paul Betlem was quoted for the first time talking about Flash on the iPhone at this year’s Flash On The Beach conference in Brighton, U.K.

My team is working on Flash on the iPhone, but it’s a closed platform.

It was hinted at that the hold up was in Apple’s court now and as soon as Apple gives the go ahead a Flash player for the iPhone could be released quite rapidly. Rumors are still swirling that the reason behind the hold up is that Flash just simply can’t work properly without some compromises in the iPhone SDK.

Is this isn’t the first time Adobe executives have talked openly about working on bringing Flash to the iPhone. (more…)