Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers

Wow thats abit of a U-turn, it was only yesterday at the same show that flash on mobiles was being touted for everything *but* iphone with no confirmed release date (if at all) now 1 day on its arrived!

This is HUGE news.
Consider that Flash is the technology underlying the multi-platform development environment of Adobe AIR.

Adobe is taking fairly square aim, it seems to me on brief consideration, of the dominance of Java.

While there still is a long way to go, considering Java's extremely rich set of libraries and enterprise dominance, it's definitely an interesting development.

But then, consider that Adobe and Apple are, in many ways, tied at the hip.

Apple stunned the world with the first home laser printer.

But who made it possible? Adobe. In fact, those first heftily-priced Apple LaserWriters paid out a cool $400 to Adobe for every one purchased.

In fact, Adobe's postscript could be seen as a predecessor to a platform-independent graphic description language prior to html/css -- and Jobs used postscript to run not only printers, but also the display of his NeXT computers.

Adobe is an amazing, and under-recognized, company.

And when I interviewed with them in 2001, were still a Mac shop. (I doubt that's changed.) They have offices in downtown San Jose -- which, as a citizen of San Jose, I'm grateful to addition to our Tax Base (though I confess, I don't know what sorts of agreements lured them downtown.) Though, to me, a hot Silicon Valley company in a high rise just seems wrong, LOL. (FYI: My interview was on the 13th floor. 13th???)

(Why didn't someone tell me they were offering 6 weeks of vacation, though? Oh well, too late now!)

Live JoyFully!

Judy

The only stumbling block I see is the whole way of developing with flash cs4/5; timelines, scenes and transitions is completely alien to 99% of programmers who code using an event model with any other development language/tool. Great for the designers but hard for the coders. Now if they enable Flex to target iphone thats different!