Comments on: Adobe Flash 10.1 to require Android 2.0

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:10:40 +0000

Mmm… 99% penetration.

By: Jman

Jman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:40:13 +0000

Cool story bro!

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:02:02 +0000

Apple didn’t invent mobile apps. Apple are just great at UI and Marketing.
You have been able to develop windows mobile apps since 2000 on the Pocket PC. iPaq were around the same time too. but give MS their dues they gave a IDE and SDK for making mobile apps in the form of eVC3. So 10 years ago we had mobile apps just no app stores.

By: Catalin

Catalin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:39:20 +0000

Here are the official Adobe demos: http://www.thehdstandard.com/hardwaresoftware-solutions-for-streaming/adobe-flash-and-air-available-on-android/

Catalin
Professional Streaming Consultant

By: Android 2.1 update moved up from Q2 to Q1 – Android and Me

Android 2.1 update moved up from Q2 to Q1 – Android and Me — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:35:05 +0000

[...] is in store. Android 2.1 will bring the millions of current Android phone owners full multitouch, Adobe Flash 10.1 support, full Buzz support, multi-accounts (and oh so much [...]

By: John Kisha

John Kisha — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:42:44 +0000

That message on the Adobe site has since changed to: “Flash Player not available for your device Sorry, Adobe Flash Player is not available from Adobe.com for your device’s operating system or browser.” I’m on a Motorola DROID. Anybody know what gives?

By: All-righty then.

All-righty then. — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:16:14 +0000

You must be referring to Mirror-Mirror version of Adobe…

By: aristophrenia

aristophrenia — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:28:26 +0000

TreX
Apple did not INVENT the app – Apple did not invent anything – apple COPIED the app, the palm, touch screen and did it poorly – what it did do is market itself well to NOOBS and deliver and excellent user experience – nothing more – and plenty – PLENTY less.

By: kyle

kyle — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:04:07 +0000

Hurry up adobe. There are ants in my pants

By: TreX

TreX — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:59:58 +0000

Its worth noting the iphone has been available for more than 3 years now. It revolutionized the smart phone and invented the “app” genra. It also holds a significant portion of the smart phone market share giving developers obvious incentive to write apps. Its also interesting to observe that 77% of the apps available on the app store are all paid apps. And only 30% of the apps downloaded are paid apps. These numbers begin to level the playing field compared with the android market, which as of 12/15/09 has reached more than 20,000 apps. 62.2% of which are free apps. Android has been out for little more than a year and already directly competes with the type of apps people download, use, and want from the app store. It will be interesting to see how fast the android market will continue to develop in the near future.

As for flash support on android, Adobe has already surfaced demo videos of the motorola droid running flash 10.1. And it appears to be running smoothly and fully capable!

Android has re-revolutionized the smart phone with its multitasking capabilities and open source sdk. And new software such as flash 10.1 will further only continue to revolutionize android and provide even more end user incentive to adopt the android platform. after Android gains more market share, we should experience an exponential trend in android support and app development. The more people that have it, the more incentive for developers to well develop, and the more apps available, the more incentive people have to adopt. Its an upward spiral that should make all of us android lovers very happy in the future.

Sources:
http://www.pinchmedia.com/blog/paid-applications-on-the-app-store-from-360idev/

http://phandroid.com/2009/12/15/20000-android-applications/