ZDNet reports that Adobe has ‘clarified’ its position on Flash on the iPhone. The company issue a statement yesterday which added the following to CEO Shantanu Narayen’s comments on Tuesday.

However, to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it.

To be fair to Narayen, that’s not a whole lot different from what he actually said, which was:

‘So we are also committed to bringing the Flash experience to the iPhone and we will work with Apple. We’ve evaluated the SDK, we can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves and we think it benefits our joint customers. So we want to work with Apple to bring that capability to the device.’

Note the two references to working with Apple, which weren’t included in the coverage on the many blogs which mocked Narayen’s comments yesterday. Most commentators chose to home in on the ‘we’ve evaluated the SDK’ bit and then use that to make the assumption that Narayen was saying that the SDK provided all the tools and permissions Adobe needed.

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