Currently I’m in San Francisco where I’ll be having some end of year meetings and setting out the plan for 2008. Lots has happened this year at Adobe, the 25th Anniversary, the largest product launch in history. Flash reached 99.1% of penetration on the desktop making it the most popular plugin ever. In mobile we launched several Flash Cast trials that will lead to at least three services in 2008 covering US, Europe and China. Flash Lite has shipped on well over 300million devices most of which are outside Japan.
Flash Lite 3 also launched will massive amounts of attention from across the world and devices shipping in Japan within a few months of its release. Nokia will be shipping FL3 on their S60 devices in Q1/08 and Sony Ericsson have also agreed to ship FL2 across their device range.
We saw some fantastic devices using Flash for their UI including the PSP, PS3, Wii, MicrosoftTV, Airbus IFE, Samsung phones and Mp3 players, IRiver mp3 players, Nokia S40 music phone and fantastic devices from LG and Sony Ericsson.
The iPhone finally reached the UK two months ago and it has certainly helped raise the game for device manufacturers. The iPhone is a fantastic example of a niche product that is perfectly targeted at its customer base.
UPDATE - You can now buy these applications for $20 and they are improved versions. I’ve paid for mine and I’m very happy to do so.
Then came the Ipod Touch, actually it was somewhat expected as the technology that went into the iPhone was so valuable, it would be crazy not to use it. I went to investigate at the Apple store here in San Francisco and found that the Touch doesn’t have the Mail, Maps or Weather apps. That would have been the end of that purchase only that after some searching I found that there is a growing community of users that are already building applications for their iPhones/iPod Touch.
The process was pretty painless, took about 1 hour and I now have a very useful gadget for viewing the web, looking at maps all with a great mp3 player.
Ok ok, it doesn’t have Flash, but before I started it couldn’t do maps, weather, email or pretend to be a ‘Flash light’.
I want a touch but am concerned about the same thing. So… How do I *customize* an iPod Touch???
[EDIT: Jailbreak Disclaimer - Although I followed these instructions and they worked for me, I take no responsibility implied or otherwise for the health of your IPod Touch.]
Is this some thinly veiled request to the iPod/iPhone hacking community to start work on a Flash Player?
[EDIT: ABSOLUTELY NOT - MARKD]
Surely you’d have better luck talking to the Player team at Adobe, no?
For me the lack of Flash on the iPhone makes it just undesirable enough for me not to want one, that and the price point. My assumption is that both Adobe and Apple believe it’s something that they want, but there’s some legal/licensing issue, both companies are well know for their tight control of their proprietary products.
So if someone can hack together a GPS unit for an iPhone: http://macenstein.com/default/archives/973
And someone else can reverse engineer their own player: http://www.picsel.com/
And the iPhone dev kit is released early 2008.
It’s only a matter of time!
At which point it’ll only be my bank balance that’s holding me back.
I believe, all big brands will have to ultimately embrace the Flash Player sooner rather than later. I can’t imagine my handset to be without the appl.
I don’t get this, all YouTube vids are in Flash format, which the iPod Touch can play, so why then isn’t this available via safari ?
Because in the iPod touch it gets converted into mp4
so if you cant watch it on the safari browser how do you convert it while still on wifi
It is converted at youtube’s side, they also support 3gp on the m.youtube.com site.
Doesnt support Flash or most video formats and you have to get third parties to put in BASIC functions?
That’s one hell of a machine there.
My friend wanted to sell me his for half price beacuse he got a phone and I asked one question: “Why?”
“My friend wanted to sell me his for half price beacuse he got a phone and I asked one question: “Why?” ”
may be have proplems !