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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
I was about to mention earlier that he's wrong about other things (a great many things) but you brought him up in a topic on something he's right about.


I blame Adobe because the software is proprietary and no one can support the device but Adobe. We could trivially have Flash 10.1 due to how similar maemo/meego are to desktop Linux systems but due to mobile devices being "special," Adobe refuse to move on it.


You can at least get open source mp3 and aac decoders. Last I checked the closest open source equivalent to adobe flash player was Gnash, and it can't do a huge number of things that Flash can.

I suppose it's back to mailing websites and asking them to support web standards instead of focusing on proprietary products. Hello 2002, welcome back.
So you believe we never got Flash 10 on the N900 by Adobe's fault? Or even TI? Only Nokia is to blame here.
The big thing about Flash 10.x is that is GPU accelerated, so the device/OS maker (Nokia) and the GPU maker (TI) have to make it work just like with H264. Whoever develops a video codec is not magically able to test and support all hardware variations out there.

There are lots of other free and paid programs that export to SWF / FLV and AIR. Get on with the times.
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