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Cheaper than the iPad, supports multi-touch on Win7. The keyboard is a good thing and you can get rid of it when you don't need it. mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 6 May 2010 13:12, 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 > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Brian Kotek <brian...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Exactly, the Android and Win7 tablets are what I'm talking about. And > since > > those are the only 2 other major tablet platforms that I've heard of, and > > since those two platforms are going to be used by most of the > > iPad competitors, I still feel fine saying most of the tablets will run > > Flash and AIR. > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/05/05/05venturebeat-adobe-demonstrates-flash-and-air-on-android-42419.html > > > > < > http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/05/05/05venturebeat-adobe-demonstrates-flash-and-air-on-android-42419.html > > > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100505-723039.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines > > > > They're slated to be available later this year. There are numerous phones > > that already run Flash Lite and Flash 10.1 is also coming to mobile > devices > > later this year: > > > > > http://moconews.net/article/419-adobe-flash-10.1-coming-to-phones-in-first-half-250-million-by-2012/ > > > > Apple will indeed have a head start, but only of a few months as opposed > to > > the multi-year time spans it took for anyone to come close to the iPod or > > the iPhone. The point is that this is coming soon, and it is going to run > on > > a huge number of devices. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:333566 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
