In comments made the week of March 3 at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting, CEO Steve Jobs said Adobe Systems’ Flash media format was not suited for Apple’s iPhone and that his company was not currently planning to support Flash on its popular mobile platform.

The Flash player itself can stream video, show animated and interactive content, and work with entry forms and other client-side data. However, all this requires a great deal of CPU power and RAM, more than most mobile devices currently on the market are packing.