I wouldn't be quite so quick on the pronouncement that most of tablet platforms will support Flash, at least in the short term. Besides the iPad, there isn't a shipping tablet that has any serious market penetration. Archos has one out there, but it doesn't run Flash. Dell is planning a weirdly form factored 7-inch based on Android, but there is no release date. HP was planning the Slate to ship with Win 7, but since their acquisition of Palm and their WebOS, the Slate has supposedly been shelved. Microsoft officially abandoned their tablet offering. There have been some rumors about Google offering one, ala the Nexus One, with theories about it running either Android or Chrome OS, but there are no announcements.
At this point, Flash basically doesn't run on any shipping or announced tablet in the same form factor as the iPad (HP and Lenova call some of their laptops tablets, but they all have keyboards and are heavier and much more expensive than the iPad). We'll probably see something based on the Android platform as it ramps up Flash 10.1 support, but it isn't clear who will offer it. Most likely Dell. There are not any Win 7-based tablets hitting the market soon afaik. With HP reportedly cancelling their Slate/Win7 project, it looks like Apple has the tablet market locked up for at least the next 6 months. We'll see what happens after that, but we saw what happened when Apple got the lead in the portable mp3 player market. Zune still sells but the iPod still rules the roost years later. Judah On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Brian Kotek <brian...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also, given that most other phone/tablet platforms WILL be supporting Flash, > I'd say Dawn might go back to management and point out they're talking about > rebuilding something JUST because the iPad won't support Flash. It may be > possible to convince them that this might be a knee-jerk reaction. > > Brian > > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Dave Watts <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote: > >> >> > It was a dig at Brad's attempt to derail the discussion into the tired >> > old Adobe vs Apple debate that everyone seems to enjoy having at the >> > moment. In other words, it was intended to highlight that Brad's >> > sarcastic comment wasn't useful to the original poster... >> >> Well, the only problem with that is that his comment was at least >> tangentially useful - it describes the current state of affairs. HTML >> 5 is not currently a reliable substitute for Flash in many ways, and >> won't be for some time to come. I just read today that MS is dragging >> their feet on adding CANVAS to IE 9! >> >> >> http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/microsoft_ie9_and_canvasn/ >> >> And without that standard in place, we can't realistically expect >> Adobe to build toolsets to let Flash developers output to non-Flash >> formats, as some people have suggested. So, the original poster is on >> her own, and has to rewrite the functionality from scratch. >> >> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >> http://www.figleaf.com/ >> http://training.figleaf.com/ >> >> Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on >> GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized >> instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333363 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
