Jon, That is assumption based on the current status quo and not counting Adobe's and community capabilities and hardware in 15 month from now. Touchscreen is very questionable in most cases - slow and not very accessible in real life. I would expect other features to be way more important - as iPhone user but also early adopter of bunch of linux/windows/palm/nokia/android smartphones as well as great "dumb" phones that have no problem to serve as trunking devices/routers for laptops. Here is what I think Flash 10 is destined to do: 1. Break application jail - I want build application in the same environment - now I have to manage 3 guys coding for different platforms ( not counting Flex) and have to work in all of them. Single platform to deliver apps not controlled by apple store profit center is long overdue. 2. Break connectivity jail. I expect voice to be more important then touchscreen. While iPhone google apps do not work well, Jott does - but lack of integration and costs of calls are show stoppers for adoption. Flash can fix that with great mashups. 3. Integration APIs are really important - exposing bluetooth, accelerometers, GPS, camera, photo and multitude of voice codecs for input and output and all other "standard" capabilities. 3a. I wonder if Adobe can work on simultaneous integration of their technologies into supporting platforms the way Apple built their business - building ecosystem - either with free or low cost licensing of embeddable technology. I really think that GMaps on iPhone are way better then top of the line car navigation system based on stale hard drive data. But iPhone screen is not usable while driving. On contrary, 7"+ car display is perfect - but you can't transfer phones display there. Perfect application for Adobe display technology.
Sincerely, Anatole Tartakovsky Farata Systems On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jon Bradley <jbrad...@postcentral.com>wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Carlos Rovira wrote: > > Hope Apple will see that other phones like this Palm Pre, with features > like FP10, can make the iPhone goes down > > > Not if the touch screen and the rest of the UI stink. > > The touch screen is, by far, the most important aspect of any smart phone, > or device (like the ipod touch). There's no other device that comes even > remotely close in terms of touch screen usability. > > - j > > >
