Thread: Adobe Flash Player 10: When will the update arrive? Is it coming at all?
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Matan is offline Matan
2010-10-08 , 11:13
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#1351
Originally Posted by flailingmonkey View Post
If anyone is still wondering why Flash 10.1 isn't already available, and don't want to be bothered to read the rest of this thread, listen up:

Someone has to pay for it. A big license fee to Adobe. Any time you want to have Flash on anything that even smells like a mobile device, Adobe will be cashing in.

My guess is that Adobe is trying to double dip. Nokia paid for a license for v9 on the N900, but Adobe demanded another license for v10.1. The lovely nature of the commercial software business.

Whether Adobe will have a free license for MeeGo ARM Handset (from meego.com) is an important consideration.
So what you are saying is that Nokia was so stupid when they made the deal with Adobe to not think about an upgrade at all, even though Flash 10 was "all the rage" much before the N900 shipped, and the Flash support was one of the main selling points of the N900. And now when they are faced with their stupidity they decide they don't want to spend the very little money it takes to fix their mistake, and N900 users can go to hell, as far as they are concerned?

Yes, that sounds exactly like Nokia.
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"N900 community support for the MeeGo-Harmattan" Is the new "Mer is Fremantle for N810".

No more Nokia devices for me.