On May 12, 2:17 pm, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote:

> At best, this demo is about four years too late.

Not sure how or why it's too late.  Too late for what?  To convince
Steve Jobs?  I suspect Adobe has moved past caring what he thinks. The
reality is that Android will support Flash in the coming months;
whereas iPhone/iPad has never and apparently *will* never support
Flash.  Of course, the devil is in the detail... but let's assume for
one minute that the implementation is "good enough"... What does that
mean?

- Android phones will support more of the full web (yes, Flash is part
of the web) than the iPhone does

- Android tablets will support more of the full web than the iPad does

Consumers want to go to web-sites and have them "just work'. In the
near future, it looks as if Android devices may be more likely to do
that than iPhones/iPads do.  RIM is adopting WebKit for its Blackberry
browser, and Blackberries too will support Flash in the future.  Same
for HP with WebOS devices. And Microsoft with Windows Phone 7.

I'm not sure if Steve Jobs inhales when he switches on his reality
distortion field or not, but he seems to actually believe that Apple
mobile products support the full web. They don't.  It was (kind of) OK
to say stuff like this when the competition was behind, but when the
competition is ahead... well, it just looks a little deluded...

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