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Adobe recently announced that Flash CS5 will support the creation of iPhone applications.

Read more on this fromAdobe News or Labs.

Is this a good thing or will it create a flood of badly designed badly thought out, generally bad apps?

The iPhone experienced phenomenal success however, now the other communications companies are coming out with their own versions (copycats!) they do need to be evolve in some manner.

Is opening up the platform the best approach, will this lead to a greater amount of good quality, useful or entertaining apps. Are Apple hoping to generate a new interest in the iPhone and cling to their market share or are they ahead of the game, do they have something better up their sleeves.

It seems a logical move anyway whatever their motives. Be it to maintain market position or just that there's no longer any benefit to restricting the development environment.

The one thing I am sure of is that the overnight iPhone app millionaires are a thing of the past, well, at least to the same degree. I'm sure as with anything there is always the potential to make money however with a growing number of handhold platforms and easier ways to develop for them the competition has never been so tough.

I imagine Apple will need to take a look at the way apps are sold in iTunes if the number does grow exponentially. Just look at Youtube, a vast amount of media which is made useful because of the effective and intuitive search functionality. To date iPhone app search functionality is not the greatest.