Anybody hoping for native Flash compatibility to be announced at the iPhone RoadMap event tomorrow will likely be disappointed; Steve Jobs has gone on record criticising Adobe’s software offering, claiming that the current mobile version of the Flash player isn’t good enough for the iPhone, but that the full version runs too slowly with the handset’s CPU.

“There’s this missing product in the middle” Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple

Adobe are yet to comment on Jobs’ statements, but looking at recent blog posts by members of their developer team it doesn’t look as though they’re leaping to produce that middle product:

“No one aside from

Steve Jobs has any idea if or when it’s coming.  Everyone I talk to doesn’t know anything” Ryan Stewart, Adobe chief spokesman for internet-based applications

While it seems likely that Flash support will eventually come to the cellphone, it seems unlikely that it will feature at the event this week.

[via BGR]