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Flash for Android and WebOS is delayed again
HOUSE OF CREATIVE SOFTWARE Adobe is about to make another own goal by delaying its Flash Player for the Android and WebOS operating systems.
Currently Adobe is fighting a war with Steve Jobs, who is leaning on software companies to no longer run Flash.
While this is an example of Jobs' arrogance, he seems to have won some of the tame media over to thinking it is a good idea.
Adobe's biggest allies would be those mobile outfits that stick two fingers up to Steve Jobs's vision of everyone in the universe using an Apple machine and doing what he tells them.
Google's open source Android is lining up to be Apple's biggest competition, unless Microsoft actually manages to pull off its Windows Phone 7 Series.
However today Adobe said the Android Flash player 10.1 is not ready and will not be available until the second half of the year, putting a damper on the hopes of many Android and WebOS users.
Just to make Apple laugh even louder, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen added that a BlackBerry version will also be made available at the same time. That second half thing actually means September, we imagine.
When it finally comes out for Android, WebOS and Blackberry, the full player, which is already available for Windows and Mac machines, will support all Flash videos as well as websites that use Flash for navigation or have Flash splash screens.
Adobe says the software will take full advantage of the differing capabilities of the mobile phones it runs on, including multi-touch support and hardware acceleration. µ
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I think this is a great project, stupid Apple is trying to shoot down flash and Android opensource project, Steve Jobs is an A-hole who needs to stop acting like he owns the world, man mac has gone 180.
adobe didn't delay anything stop this bs and actually research before you post something!
Please get your "facts" straight. Adobe did not say that Flash 10.1 was delayed, it was lazy reporters like yourself that have taken Shantanu Narayen's comments out of context. In fact Adobe has confirmed (as reported by several other blogs/news sites) that 10.1 is on schedule and WILL ship before the end of the first half of 2010. Adobe has also announced that private beta testing has already begun on both Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 mobile which will soon follow with public betas before the product is ultimately released. Guessing that Flash will be available in September is exactly that - your guess - and a wrong one at that. Do your friggin' homework numbnutt!
ignore the consumer and suffer.
Give users options to disable flash or death to flash
"When it finally comes out for Android, WebOS and Blackberry, the full player, which is already available for Windows and Mac machines, will support all Flash videos as well as websites that use Flash for navigation or have Flash splash screens."
If there still are any like that, by then.
But I don't call it dead yet. For my taste, a plugin product that allows new ways for hackers to break into your computer is a bad addition to any web site, but if everybody stuck to that then YouTube wouldn't exist in its present form.
As for "HTML 5", does it exist, formally? And ooes it provide video, or only a place to put video?
"...it's not working anywhere..."
Well, it works just fine on my Nokia N900, thanks.
I agree that HTML5 is a better long-term solution, but it's *very* long-term - 2012 as a Candidate Recommendation, 2022 or later for W3C Recommendation (from Wikipedia).
Meanwhile, draft implementations will have to co-exist with Flash, which works just fine on Maemo.
Android, webOS, and RIM users will benefit in September as well. iPhone users... well, not so much. I can't help but wonder if this will hurt Apple in the next couple of years.
I've got a few gripes against Apple and its ignorance of security concerns as well as its baffling attitude towards battery replacement, but I hardly think that Adobe, with its bloatware, is a proper knight to take up the gauntlet on such matters.
If Adobe had kept its products lean and efficient, it would be in a much better moral position.
It's turning into a debacle. Flash is not going anywhere in mobile. It's not working anywhere. Developers are going to have to go to some other technology...
cue HTML5
While Flash has presence on the desktop, in mobile, HTML5 is definitely the way to go.