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Adobe demos Flash Player 10

IDF 2009 Widgets and apps everywhere
Friday, 25 September 2009, 02:06

AT THE LAST DAY of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Adobe's general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit, David Wadhwani, demonstrated the company's upcoming Flash Player 10 platform for the first time.

Adobe is hoping to implement Flash in just about every PC, mobile, TV and consumer electronic device on the planet, allowing developers to create a range of widgets and applications that run across all of these devices. µ

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big deal....

where's the 64bit version?

posted by : horizontal_hold, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
oh please no

We don't need Flash popping up even more places now. What about all the frequent security problems with it? Just say no to Flash, it will give you herpes.

posted by : jason, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Flash 10?

I thought flash 10 had already been released? As 64bit too, at least for Linux, dunno about that other operating system.

posted by : Ocular Sinister, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Flash :P

Does Flash 10 herald the arrival of a 64bit version of the player?

posted by : chris, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
I doubt it

Adobe tries to get flash on just about every PC. I doubt it because they haven't produced a version for OS/2 for ages.

posted by : ivan, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Adobe is GOOD, Except IE64....

WithOut Adobe there'd Be Little Media, Yet Internet Explorer64 bit cann't be THAT Hard to Figure Out. Hummmm.
Welcome to theALAMO.
At least ALL other 64 bit O/S stuff works with Adobe. Like theINQ READER, Very Discrete.

vondrashek

posted by : Flasher...., 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Linux 64bit is still beta

but I do remember some adobe blogs saying that 64bit would be availble for version 10 - they just commneted that linux 64bit is much easier to work with then win 64 bit

hence no windows beta yet :)))

posted by : acreda, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Flash evil

"WithOut Adobe there'd Be Little Media"

OMG that is so wrong in so many way its scary. Adobe keep buying up every company they can to increase their reach and control of they way people create media, but that doesn't make them the people who have enabled media, they are trying to control media creation forcing people do it the Flash way. (Plus any hardware with Flash risks endless bloody minded in your face adverts, which is why I disable Flash. Flash everywhere is a advertisers dream come true and a bloody nightmare for anyone who hates adverts and Adobe know this, its why they want to get onto closed platforms as then they can't be cut off (and that'll be the point I stop buying any closed platform)).

posted by : FlashIsEvil, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Sure! if Intel or IBM is writing the code

Adobe has to improve on the quality if the code fro people to start thinking using it all over the place.

Their flash (all version) can easily kill a 2.8GHz system.

posted by : aNewbie, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
sixty four bitness?

lets hope the clay company atleast have a 64-bit version by now lol.

posted by : Andy, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Stop the madness

Ban Flash, we don't need it or want the resource hogging advertisement platform infecting the net.

posted by : Regulas, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Flash RULES!

You knucklehead luddites can wait for HTML5 to be supported on IE6, or you can install FlashPlayer. I personally am tickled that I haven't had to make that choice between "Download QuickTime" and "Play in Windows Media Player" since, oh, 2006. I heard that Firefox's open source video player is super sweet in terms of quality, too. NOT.

By the way, it is only a matter of time before OS is relegated to a thing of the past, as Flash's "write once, run anywhere" is applied and we can use Flash/Flex to code apps for the iPhone, Blackberry, IE, Firefox, Opera, my TV's set top box, the Wii, Facebook, Widgets, blah, blah, blah...

posted by : FlashLover3000, 25 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Insecure Flash software

How about the security holes? How about violation of our privacy? There is a simple solution: either do not install this crap or, if you made that mistake, REMOVE IT!

posted by : Dr. Sense, 26 September 2009 Complain about this comment
@FlashLover3000, yes indeed.

Having some consistency across web platforms is indeed a great thing. Even now we still have to deal with inconsistent browser rendering when catering to the major browsers. Assign the blame to whomever, the fact remains that web standards compliance is slow and unpredictable. We won't be seeing major adoption of HTML5 for years. Good riddance to having so many different video formats requiring every last bloated media player on the net. If Microsoft helped usher in the demise of that era and those companies (like Real), praise be to them.

posted by : BB, 26 September 2009 Complain about this comment
Security holes everywhere

Flash in just about every PC, mobile, TV and consumer electronic device on the planet

DO NOT WANT !!!

posted by : Mona Ditz, 27 September 2009 Complain about this comment
no ty

html5 is a little more open. I don't need kooks watchine me through my webcam via flash.

posted by : mogwai, 28 September 2009 Complain about this comment
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