Well we're getting very despondent now. We really want to use flash on our Win CE device - but it would seem the suits in charge of licensing are far too busy to get in touch with us. We've been in contact with Adobe UK, who said they'd 'ping' America for us - We've been in touch with Adobe US who said they'd 'nudge' the EU licensing peeps. But nothing, we're still waiting to hear.
Frankly we're extremely disappointed, we have to move quickly in our market as competition is fierce. We need to do a feasibility study as to whether flash is suitable for our product, but in order to get the SDK we have to get licensed - so we fill in all the relevant forms, receive an automatic email reply with no contact details, no names, not even a reference number. So - now we have to put our business on hold, we've spent a fair bit on macromedia/adobe products over the years, personally I've been evangelising over flash since version 3 - but it now looks like we'll have to investigate an alternative technology if we're to make any progress whatsoever. In my experience a customer doesn't mind waiting as long as there expectations have been accurately set, but in this case I have no clue how long I'm supposed to wait, the generated email (received 31 March 06) simply stated 'shortly'. I guess the 'appropriate business development manager' in the aforementioned email is on holiday somewhere? Sorry for the off topic, but this is more likely to be picked up on this list, and others may be going through the same grief. Kind Regards Mike Mountain > _____________________________________________ > From: Mike Mountain > Sent: 07 April 2006 09:25 > To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' > Subject: Adobe Licensing for flash player on embedded systems > > We filled in the online form to get hold of the SDK as we wish to test > the viability of running one of our flash games on a Win CE device ARM > processor. > > The form said someone would get back to me within 7 days, this is the > last day and I've still not been contacted. I really need to move > quickly on this - but the correspondence received from Adobe gave me > no contact details or reference number. > > I phoned Adobe/Macromedia UK and they said they'd nudge the States for > me. > > So I was wondering, what's the turnaround time been like for other > people? Anyone got a contact I could email? Is their anyway at all I > can speed up this process? > > My other problem is information on running the flash player on Win CE > is vague to say the least. I hear mention of Flash Player 6, Flash > player 7, Flash lite, and Flash lite 2 - but there's no definitive > "this is the best performing". I see web pages written in 2001 that > talk about bundling the flash player embedded license fee in with the > cost of CE but find no mention of this on the Adobe site. > > So Mike C, JD or anyone else who may read this post who can help - can > you please drop me a line. > > Thanks > > Mike Mountain _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
