Yes, Flash is running on Android and I think that is an excellent thing. My point was that no vendor of any note has set a release date for a tablet running Android or Win7. Microsoft has canceled the Courier project. HP has reportedly canceled Slate. Dell has reportedly got a 7-inch tablet (which is an odd size) that will run Android but no announced release date. Google devices are pure speculation at this point.
Flash is finding a home on the Android handset market and that is awesome. There are some HTC handsets and I'm sure more will arrive. Win 7 phone isn't due out until the end of the year and it isn't clear that Flash will run on it, especially since MS has made the decision to go back to an iphone 2-like OS (like removing multitasking). That means that Flash will make some inroads in the smart phone market with Android, which is great since I like Android. I'm not sure you can make any sort of reasonable claims about the tablet market though. The plain truth is that there is no pipeline of tablets from respected vendors that will run Flash. If HP redesigns the Slate to run WebOS (does that run Flash? I don't think it does but I'm not sure), who is going to challenge Apple this year? Apple has already sold 1 million iPads. They are releasing a new version of the OS in June. I'm thinking that the market will see several million iPads in production and probably on a second generation of hardware before a serious competitor comes to market. That's a big hole to dig out of. I'd love to be wrong. I like Apple ok but I prefer Android and I prefer the ecosystem around it. But as of today, we're working on a business app for the iPad because we can't wait a year for something else to get announced, get out and get stable. I wish we could use Flex and install our own app on Android devices we sell but we're stuck with Objective-C and Apple's app distribution (which irritates me to no end) because that's what the market is. Cheers, Judah On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Brian Kotek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Exactly, the Android and Win7 tablets are what I'm talking about. And since > those are the only 2 other major tablet platforms that I've heard of, and > since those two platforms are going to be used by most of the > iPad competitors, I still feel fine saying most of the tablets will run > Flash and AIR. > > http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/05/05/05venturebeat-adobe-demonstrates-flash-and-air-on-android-42419.html > > <http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/05/05/05venturebeat-adobe-demonstrates-flash-and-air-on-android-42419.html> > http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100505-723039.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines > > They're slated to be available later this year. There are numerous phones > that already run Flash Lite and Flash 10.1 is also coming to mobile devices > later this year: > > http://moconews.net/article/419-adobe-flash-10.1-coming-to-phones-in-first-half-250-million-by-2012/ > > Apple will indeed have a head start, but only of a few months as opposed to > the multi-year time spans it took for anyone to come close to the iPod or > the iPhone. The point is that this is coming soon, and it is going to run on > a huge number of devices. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:333394 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
