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While neither Apple nor Adobe has made a statement on the Gear Live report, Ryan Stewart, Rich Internet Application Evangelist, said on his blog that he has no idea whether the rumour is true or not.

"I assume someone at the high levels of Adobe knows what the status is but I don't and everyone I talk to doesn't," he says. "That's because only Apple really knows anything

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about it."

In fact he thinks just one person knows.

"No one aside from Steve Jobs has any idea if/when it's coming."

Posting an Adobe blog, John Dowdell says he is equally in the dark.

"I have no idea what Apple is doing myself - they're so tight and controlling that someone there will probably complain that an Adobe staffer even acknowledged the rumour," he wrote.

So if Adobe is not working on Flash for the iPhone, then the onus lies with Apple. But according über-blogger John Gruber says that Apple has no interest in promoting the format on mobile devices, even though it is so widespread on the desktop.

"Why would Apple help Adobe establish Flash as a de facto standard for the mobile web, too?," he asks. "If Flash does turn into a major force in the mobile world, Apple can always add it later. But why shouldn't Apple push for a Flash-free mobile web future now?"