> The real problem is not market share but "mind share". That is, even > if the proportion of users viewing your site via an iPad is small, the > reaction from clients when they realize their content isnt viewable on > the magical device will be disproportionally large. It becomes > stickier still when you consider that a big percentage of the people > who will use iPads are in the ad/creative/communications world, eg the > same people making decisions and recommendations for whether or not to > use Flash. If you're sitting in a conference room in which 90% of the > people have iPhones and there are a few iPads sitting on the table, > arguing that the percentage of non-Flash users is negligible becomes > tougher.
That's definitely how Apple views this, anyway. That's the bet they're making. As a Flash developer, though, you are obviously going to bet the other way, right? Fortunately for us, I don't think that's going to happen. While 90% of the people in the conference room may have iPhones, I haven't seen any indicator that leads me to expect that sort of buy-in for iPads. I was just chatting with a creative director I know - a real Apple zealot - and he told me he didn't see any value in the iPad. The people in the conference room will already have MacBooks, etc, and Flash will work fine on those (once they release a version of Flash Player that uses the new hardware APIs that Apple just released - and that have been around in Windows for ages). And, you know, once people see that Flash can work well on other devices, maybe the iPhone won't be as popular as it is. I'm seeing a few people switch from iPhone to Android (mostly from frustration with ATT, actually). Aside from the breadth of the App Store, there really isn't any advantage that iPhone has over the Android 2.1 phones. 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. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
