Adobe lifts the licensing fees and opens its powerful program to all developers
Posted 05.05.2008 at 1:27 pm
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Adobe has announced that it will be lifting licensing fees for Flash to developers working on mobile applications as part of its new Open Screen Project. The goal is to bring more rich content to phones across a standardized platform. Flash is already ubiquitous in Web browsers, so the available content on the net is mature and widespread. Currently, phones use a disparate variety of software to power video and games; rarely has the feedback been overwhelmingly positive about a mobile experience with either kind of media. The aim with Open Screen is to make the mobile experience more congruent with the one in a PC browser.
An additional benefit will be the standards across devices. Web producers may rue the inconsistencies across a handful of browsers and platforms when building a site, but mobile developers have to contend with dozens of dissimilar phones and other devices in order to make a game work on them all.
Of course, with all the industry support Adobe has garnered in the run-up to the announcement, Apple remains the most notable exception. Steve Jobs has repeatedly said Flash would not be a part of the iPhone, but Adobe developers are working on it anyway now that the SDK has been released. Whether the two will find terms on which to agree remains anyone's guess.
Via PhysOrg
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"Steve Jobs has repeatedly said Flash would not be a part of the iPhone" -- this is exactly the kind of thing that bothers me about apple and the IPhone. They made a great piece of hardware, but then have to keep their hands all over it, trying to say what software it can and cannot run. As such, they may get more profit in the long run by forcing developers to go through their system, but what they've done has deliberately delayed the device's growth.
They won't get respect for me from that. Not that my respect matters to them; I've never been a customer :).
I'm wait enough for them to release flash version for iPhone.
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I applaud Jobs for his stand on Flash. I want to own a product that I know will work, will not be drained of precious battery life by showing stupid flash ads in my browser, and won't cause my Iphone to chug.
The only reason they are going to an Open standard is that they know now that both Google and Apple have issues with Flash that their time is limited and this is their way of trying to get enough developers out there to cause an influx of new apps/programs to keep them relevant.
And of course WP7 will support it, so you know it's an outgoing tech.