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Adobe Flash Player 10: When will the update arrive? Is it coming at all?
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zwer
2010-05-05 , 06:43
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We have no reason to doubt Qole, but I'll poke my inside sources at Adobe to try to get the real reason for cancelation. The last info I had is that they've ironed out most of the issues for platforms they've announced to support 10.1 (and Maemo 5 on N900 was one of them) and that they are having serious problems for getting around Androids' structural limitations (Dalvik mostly) so that the focus is on Android and once they bring it to an acceptable state 10.1 should be available for the rest as well.
If that's true, and I have no reason to doubt my sources any more than Qole, this is then a pure business decission, and a bad one at that. After all, if the Harmattan device is to support 10.1, and if it's true that it will sport pretty much the same base HW, the Flash Player would be essentially the same as for the N900. And I highly doubt that both, Nokia and Adobe, would like to see Harmattan/MeeGo not supporting the 10.1.
Either way, I'll try to get the info which side pulled the plug, Adobe or Nokia, as we should know who should get a 'jerk' label for disappointing their loyal users/supporters for some loose marketing gain. Of course, there is a distant possibility that there is a serious problem for utilizing the OMAP3430 and that it's not a business decission after all, in which case we should forget 10.1 support for the Harmattan device as well. But either way, that shouldn't stop Adobe releasing the non-HW-accelerated player - the advances on the NanoJIT between Flash 9 and Flash 10 alone are enough to give a reason to update.
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