Thread: Adobe Flash Player 10: When will the update arrive? Is it coming at all?
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2010-05-03 , 12:49
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Originally Posted by Rushmore View Post
I posted about the N900 issue as well, since NOTHING was mentioned about Maemo or the N900, or Nokia...etc. They talked about Android and WP7 as far as platforms for launch. Unless we are getting the beta, or if the code is portable enough, we may not get Flash 10.1- final release.

Why would we, since Nokia has moved on to other platforms and mainly left Maemo to the community? No problem for me, since I dumped Tmo and now on Verizon. Droid and Incredible are doing just fine Not sure which to keep yet.

If we get Flash 10.1 for N900, I will consider it a bonus.
I'm not too familiar with Android's kernel, but for linux in general, Flash is just a shared object. In fact, installation is nothing more than copying the file to some derivation of /usr/lib. Android and Maemo5 are the same build target, so how much extra work and time would be involved for supporting both? Furthermore, Meego and Maemo are even more alike so if Adobe were to "support" Meego, then Maemo would, by extension, be supported as well. Maybe there's much more to this than I'm seeing, and perhaps someone with some Andoid development experience can clear this up.