Wouldn't the mere fact that iTunes as a sync conduit is a pretty decent... conduit? Makes things pretty simple and even flexible to a certain degree.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > > The real problem is not market share but "mind share". That is, even > > if the proportion of users viewing your site via an iPad is small, the > > reaction from clients when they realize their content isnt viewable on > > the magical device will be disproportionally large. It becomes > > stickier still when you consider that a big percentage of the people > > who will use iPads are in the ad/creative/communications world, eg the > > same people making decisions and recommendations for whether or not to > > use Flash. If you're sitting in a conference room in which 90% of the > > people have iPhones and there are a few iPads sitting on the table, > > arguing that the percentage of non-Flash users is negligible becomes > > tougher. > > That's definitely how Apple views this, anyway. That's the bet they're > making. As a Flash developer, though, you are obviously going to bet > the other way, right? > > Fortunately for us, I don't think that's going to happen. While 90% of > the people in the conference room may have iPhones, I haven't seen any > indicator that leads me to expect that sort of buy-in for iPads. I was > just chatting with a creative director I know - a real Apple zealot - > and he told me he didn't see any value in the iPad. The people in the > conference room will already have MacBooks, etc, and Flash will work > fine on those (once they release a version of Flash Player that uses > the new hardware APIs that Apple just released - and that have been > around in Windows for ages). > > And, you know, once people see that Flash can work well on other > devices, maybe the iPhone won't be as popular as it is. I'm seeing a > few people switch from iPhone to Android (mostly from frustration with > ATT, actually). Aside from the breadth of the App Store, there really > isn't any advantage that iPhone has over the Android 2.1 phones. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- http://ericd.net Interactive design and development _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
