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Originally Posted by un-named_user View Post
Yes, Adobe is a prick for leaving Linux out for most of the time. But how can you even confuse normal Linux distributions business case out there with no manufactures exclusively using them to push their hardware vs something like Nokia's Linux based distributions M5/M6/etc.
It's not confusion - Flash on Maemo is a direct descendant of the Linux desktop Flash, it is not treated as a separate platform by Adobe (or Nokia). Until there is a solid Linux base for 10.1, Maemo/MeeGo will be just a stepchild, no matter how hard Nokia pushes. Think about it, Adobe sunk TONS of effort to get around Apple's limitations, only to have the door slammed in their faces. Adobe is a prick because they said well then, s**w everything, we want to hurt Apple, nobody says no the hottest chick in town ! There are a LOT more Linux machines (or Symbian) out there and yet they focus almost exclusively on Android, relegating everything second to that, exactly because Symbian and Linux even with their tens-or-hundreds-of-millions of users will not impact Apple as much as Android. This really is about vanity and politics between Apple and Adobe, users be damned, we're just collaterals in that story, and not chiefly even that of Nokia or MeeGo, but Adobe. Think about it. Can Nokia singlehandedly take over the whole Flash for Linux branch, hardware acceleration and all ? Yeah, they could probably cobble together a barebones port based on the OpenScreen porting kit on their own, but that would essentially be forking Flash. That's why I'm not at all sure if the current situation is a result of 'Adobe good, Nokia bad', which is the general notion here.
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