Good to see a voice of reason in this debate. Thanx Judah! Macromedia was talking about the mobile market for years, Adobe has talked about the mobile market for a few years too. We might finally be seeing a deliverable with Flash Player 10.1 (and that's great). The reality is that a lot of the mobile / tablet market thinks Flash is irrelevant at this point. The gamble is whether Adobe can make Flash relevant in this market or whether Apple's head start will making it a losing strategy.
It's a very heated debate - and people on both sides are very passionate about it, hoping their side "wins". I have sympathies with both parties. Frankly tho', I'm tired of it all and I wish everyone would just shut up, sit down and wait and see how this pans out :) Sean On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > Yes, Flash is running on Android and I think that is an excellent > thing. My point was that no vendor of any note has set a release date > for a tablet running Android or Win7. Microsoft has canceled the > Courier project. HP has reportedly canceled Slate. Dell has reportedly > got a 7-inch tablet (which is an odd size) that will run Android but > no announced release date. Google devices are pure speculation at this > point. > > Flash is finding a home on the Android handset market and that is > awesome. There are some HTC handsets and I'm sure more will arrive. > Win 7 phone isn't due out until the end of the year and it isn't clear > that Flash will run on it, especially since MS has made the decision > to go back to an iphone 2-like OS (like removing multitasking). That > means that Flash will make some inroads in the smart phone market with > Android, which is great since I like Android. > > I'm not sure you can make any sort of reasonable claims about the > tablet market though. The plain truth is that there is no pipeline of > tablets from respected vendors that will run Flash. If HP redesigns > the Slate to run WebOS (does that run Flash? I don't think it does but > I'm not sure), who is going to challenge Apple this year? Apple has > already sold 1 million iPads. They are releasing a new version of the > OS in June. I'm thinking that the market will see several million > iPads in production and probably on a second generation of hardware > before a serious competitor comes to market. That's a big hole to dig > out of. > > I'd love to be wrong. I like Apple ok but I prefer Android and I > prefer the ecosystem around it. But as of today, we're working on a > business app for the iPad because we can't wait a year for something > else to get announced, get out and get stable. I wish we could use > Flex and install our own app on Android devices we sell but we're > stuck with Objective-C and Apple's app distribution (which irritates > me to no end) because that's what the market is. > > Cheers, > Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333397 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
