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Take that Steve Jobs...]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
I use Adobe Air on the desktop and I haven't seen an update it in ages. Not to mention the apps for it still aren't compatible across all 3 desktops. And after not updating the desktop version for a long time, they move on to the smartphone platforms? Yeah. Have fun when apps don't work.

Not to mention this thing is too reminiscent of java, except that it's faster. It could be really cool. They're aren't going to be as many touchscreens running this as all the moble OSs decided to run java, but if they aren't willing to update regularly for the desktop, why hold out hope for the mobile platform?

Stick with the apps for your platform and you'll be happier not to rely on Adobe.]]>Feb 15th 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://bit.ly/scrutinizing-flash-on-idevices
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wasnt it apples decision to not support flash? Loads of people still use their software so I dont know what are you on about]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
Who said i was even talking about Apple, FAIL.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
because the iphone/ipad are probably soon to be the only mobile devices without flash support while symbian and android devices already support it.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
Surely you are aware of differences in hardware? I mean, are you saying that if the Droid has the processor and memory to handle something, but the Hero can't it's better not to bother?

Maybe all companies should stop refreshing their hardware altogether seeing as you're under the belief the old hardware can handle anything that could be cooked up from this point forward.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
What about Windows 7 devices. Don't you people ever read.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
Android is starting to look the same, even for features that just about every Android device can handle.

Every iPhone OS release has so far worked on every iPhone OS device, and been made available for every iPhone OS device at the same time.

Back on topic, if Adobe's proposed iPhone features in CS5 involve creating an app that uses AIR, I am all for it. The app will have to be developed to work specifically on the iPhone, or it will die on its arse. The main reason I don't want to enable Flash on any phone I own is because the lion's share of web-based Flash content won't be reworked for phones, and thus I will have to lose bandwidth to bloated junk I can't use on a small, touch-based device.]]>Feb 15th 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
+1]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
Apple hasn't given adobe access to the GPU and this is why Flashplayer continues to suck on a mac.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
Well if they won't even let the darn thing multitask for fear of the battery crapping out, imagine running flash on it.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
Not a decade...

And adobe bought Macromedia 5 years ago, and it has been improving since then. ]]>Feb 15th 2010 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Flash won't show up in the browser on the iPod, iPhone, or iPad, because the app store sales would tank immediately. If you could play free flash games in the browser on your iPad, why would you buy games from the store. If you could watch Flash videos in the browser for free, why would you buy videos or songs from iTunes? It's all about the revenue streams.]]>Feb 15th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
watched some Vimeo last night on my Nexus... awesome quality, fast and smooth.... f#ck Flash...
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except html5 is a fallback for Flash, not the other way around. Have you seen html5 video on youtube/vimeo? It looks blocky and pixelated and there's no hd.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
but isnt it better for flash as an option rather than scrapping it all together?

having flash support is better than no support]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
"...Hulu is coming up next. Pretty soon all video on the web will be HTML5 with a fallback to Flash."

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. The elephant in the room you're forgetting is DRM. Hulu and it's content providers are in no rush to adopt a standard where I can right click on the video and download it. Until Hulu can restrict where their video will be watched, by who and in what location, and until Youtube can embed ads over theirs, you wont see widespread adoption.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
In simpler terms, you're talking DivX when what you have in your idealistic mind is XviD.

Cross platform deployment IS a big deal for a lot of developers. The same reason why there's a renewed interest in qt. We're not just talking video streaming here. We're dealing with proper applications and a markup language whose specifications aren't even finalized is not the solution for it. Not at the moment or in the near future.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/goddamn right, its not our fault that Adobe was faster to win the battle over web-content.
I mean, its like Darwin's Theory, the best survives and till now Adobe is leading.]]>Feb 15th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
HTML5 on Vimeo looks great! we're talking on mobiles here, not PCs dood
]]>Feb 15th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/It also takes up a lot more CPU...
just saying... :P]]>Feb 15th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
Cross platform. Making an app that will run on your Android, your Windows mobile and your Symbian as well as your PC.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
the problem with crossplatform is that it's slow and you have to support multiple devices so that means lowest common denominator. ie. slow.

Look at java, yeah multi platform, but slow and ugly. Also it's not open like java is. AIR is a proprietary system. And we know how apple responds to proprietary systems.]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/Feb 15th 2010 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
They build their own, right?]]>Feb 15th 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/adobe-brings-air-to-android-promises-flash-10-1-in-the-first-ha/
How long does Flash exists?

Count how many mobile phone platform does has "official" support (not hack!) which function nicely and properly?

I bet it wont finish within first half year. Then another excuse to delay it.

If not, it will be released with a lot of bugs!

No wonder Apple does not like Flash.]]>Feb 15th 2010 9:18AM