Thread: Adobe Flash Player 10: When will the update arrive? Is it coming at all?
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-06-15 , 19:51
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#686
Originally Posted by devu View Post
For me one thing is clear. If One particular platform can handle that. Flash must be prepare for that as well. If Other doesn't means there is some missing link. (drivers?)
I’m afraid it’s simpler than that. My educated guess is that the missing link is (drumroll)... time.

The Open Screen project was a nice, grand but slow project, a little late, no biggie. But with the turn of events in the last 6 months suddenly everything shifted to overdrive. With the iOS rebellion, Adobe needs Flash on a major mobile platform competing with Apple *NOW*, hence the 100% Android focus. Nokia needs 100% focus to make MeeGo and a Qt based ecosystem ready by N9 or they are really in trouble (bigger trouble than if none of us and our family and their friends never buy a Nokia again). That’s my guess why there is no frantic activity around Flash 10.1 on Maemo. Considering that Nokia does not win anything by NOT having Flash on the N900 (the N8 does not have it and the N9 is half a year away), that’s the one remotely reasonable explanation I can think of (with the presumption that Nokia and Adobe DO have a strategy ).
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