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Adobe Systems CEO Shantanu Narayen said that the company intends to bring its Flash Player to Apple’s iPhone.

During a conference call to announce Adobe’s first quarter earnings on Tuesday, Narayen said that Adobe “will work with Apple” to make sure that Flash applications can run on the iPhone.

Seeking Alpha has a transcript of conference call. Narayen’s comment on the iPhone was in response to a question about getting Flash ported to other devices.

“Well, you really believe that Flash is synonymous with the internet and frankly, anybody who wants to browse the web and experience the web’s glory really needs Flash support. We were very excited about the announcement from Windows Mobile, adoption of Flash on their devices and the fact that we’ve shipped 0.5 billion devices now, non-PC devices. So we are also committed to bringing the Flash experience to the iPhone and we will work with Apple. We’ve evaluated the SDK, we can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves and we think it benefits our joint customers. So we want to work with Apple to bring that capability to the device,” Narayen said.

Whether and how Flash applications would run on Apple’s iPhone has been an open question since the device’s launch.

Adobe executives have made clear that their desire to have Web applications written with Flash, which run on a range of the mobile phones, to make their way to the iPhone.

But Apple has thus far not allowed it apparently over concerns that it Flash applications run too slowly.

During Apple’s shareholder meeting in May, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that full-blown Flash applications are “too slow to be useful” on the iPhone. He went to say that the mobile version of the iPhone, called Flash Lite, is “not capable of being used with the Web.”

Microsoft announced earlier this week that it has licensed Flash Lite so that Flash applications can run on Windows Mobile devices.