Developer submits Flash Installer to iPhone App Store.

** 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.