Adobe CEO: Flash Coming to Android, Palm, and RIM 2nd half 2010

Posted by jailbreaknews on Apr 15, 2010 in Apple, iPhone, Videos | 0 comments

Fox News conducted an interview with the CEO of Adobe: Shantanu Narayen. The main focus of the interview was Adobe’s launch of Creative Suite 5, but during the interview Narayen confirmed that a mobile version of flash would be launched for Android, Palm, and RIM in the second half of 2010. Noticeably (although not surprisingly) absent is Flash’s availability on the iPhone OS. Narayen comments on this, saying that Apple has made the wrong decision, and that this hurts the consumer in the end.

Narayen goes on in the interview mentioning that the Flash Player has been updated, which will allow developers more insight into what customers are viewing.

I for one am very excited for the second half of 2010. Mobile Flash could give operating systems such as Android, Palm, and RIM the edge they need to severely hurt iPhone sales. Not only will the inclusion of Flash allow the viewing of flash content on webpages, Shantanu also states that applications for mobile will be able to be created as well. This would bring a whole slew of new, awesome applications to all three of these operating systems.

Flash Mobile is just one of the great reasons to be a non-iPhone conformist. If this catches on, Apple may have no choice but to loosen up that closed, proprietary operating system they so dearly love.

What are your thoughts? Will Flash Mobile be a game changer? Should Apple take note and allow Flash? Will Android, Palm and RIM sales skyrocket? Tell us in the comments below!

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