Adobe : Flash and AIR on mobiles

[marshalla]

http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/february2010...

and they don't seem too impressed with Apple's strategy.

[Leithen]

"ADRIAN: It's really disappointing. It's disappointing both because it doesn't have Flash, and because I think it's proof that Apple is moving away from open operating systems like Mac OS and getting more and more aggressive in closing down their operative systems. Which is bad for developers. It's bad obviously for developers who are using Flash, but it's bad for developers who are using Java, .NET, any technology other than Apple's technologies. That's just disappointing. It seems like they're moving in the wrong direction. The thing I'm optimistic about is that everybody else is moving in the other direction."

Sums up Adobe's problems rather well. Their technologies require access to the OS, whilst Apple is backing WebKit (Open Source) and HTML5/CSS3 as being the future. Claiming that Apple is moving away from "Open OS's" is a red herring. For their mobile devices, sure, they are restricting access, but all the signs are that OSX will remain as "Open" as ever.

Seems to be a whole bunch of "developers" happy with the mobile strategy....

[Greedydog]

On the other hand over at Android flash 10.1 appears to have landed on the HTC Desire (and fingers crossed with a new ROM this weekend on my Nexus 1)

Hulu, Seesaw and lots of On Demand services here I come!