Droid does flash

[Mjd]

not just the camera :3

In an interview with the New York Times, Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, put to rest all the rumors and confirmed that the upcoming Android 2.2 release known as “Froyo” will include support for Adobe Flash. Flash for Android was first demonstrated on the T-Mobile G1 back in November 2008 and the Android community has been waiting with growing impatience for this feature to launch on their open source mobile platform. Though Rubin was generous in sharing the Adobe Flash information, he failed to disclose even a tentative launch date for Android 2.2. Android fans are now left in the unenviable position of knowing that Flash support is coming in the next release but still relying on the rumor mill to predict when the release might rollout. For those who are keeping track, the latest guesstimate points to a May unveiling.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/...r-adobe-flash/

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/0...thing-android/

[jmc]

See, this would make me excited for flash on my htc hero.....if it wasn't fir the fact sprint is still cockblocking the 2.1 update for my phone, and has been for 7 months now.

I'll get 2.2 and flash, when 2.3 rolls out lol

[Mjd]

See, this would make me excited for flash on my htc hero.....if it wasn't fir the fact sprint is still cockblocking the 2.1 update for my phone, and has been for 7 months now.

I'll get 2.2 and flash, when 2.3 rolls out lol

VZW was like that with 2.1, so I just rooted. The only real anwser to anything.

[Auspice]

Watch it get delayed again, Flash was supposed to be part of 2.0 back in January. >_>

[Mjd]

Going to bump this instead of make a new topic...


Adobe CEO talks about Apple

"Speaking about Mr. Jobs's assertion that Adobe is the No. 1 cause of Mac crashes, Mr. Narayen says if Adobe crashes Apple, that actually has something "to do with the Apple operating system."

>:3

Adobe blog on Flash mobile

[gfrommy]

Apple's Endless Expanding App Universe

This was a good article to give some of the inner workings of the app universe. There is a few good parts about adobe and, how people make money off off apps. Ill quote the adobe part to save you all the trouble.

trings are attached, however. In the fine print of the new developer contract are strictures that could hurt or even kill many developers' plans. Apple has always banned apps built with Adobe's (ADBE) Flash technology because it views Flash, the program that animates some 75% of video on the Web, as buggy and battery-draining.

While many software experts agree, it's also true that banning Flash means that apps developed for the iPhone won't work with non-Apple devices. The new contract takes Apple's war on Flash even further: Apple outlaws any software that translates Flash-based apps into iPhone-approved ones. "Apple has gotten better at working with developers the same way a chess master gets better at playing with pawns," says David Howell, CEO of iPhone app maker Avatron Software.

From what I know about the situation and Adobe and Apple, I think its a really bad idea to ban flash. It the two companies can come to terms on something its only going to hurt apple. I know from just talking with people that are tech savy, not having flash on the ipad has stopped almost all of them from taking the plunge. So many websites support and use flash, I know being an iphone user it really hinders the usefulness if I cant get to the information I need. Some people say that it would create even more of a strain on cellular networks. I say this is bunk, Im paying $30 USD for a manditory unlimited data paln for my cell phone and I would like to know where all that money goes. Ok, rant over for now...