Adobe, Microsoft "working closely" on Flash for Win Phone 7
updated 02:15 pm EST, Wed March 10, 2010
Adobe says Flash for WP7 a key plan
Adobe's Mike Chambers late yesterday confirmed that his company is not only developing Flash for Windows Phone 7 but has been deeply involved with Microsoft. The developer notes that Adobe has been "working closely" with Microsoft and plans to integrate Flash 10.1 directly into Internet Explorer Mobile. Chambers doesn't have an estimate of when the plugin would be done.
The statement partly contradicts what Microsoft had to say at its Mobile World Congress keynote last month. CEO Steve Ballmer didn't reject Flash but also made no plans to include the web animation technology by the time Windows Phone 7 shipped in the fall.
Microsoft's collaboration stands in contrast to Apple's approach, which has not only rejected the idea of integrating Flash with the iPhone but is widely thought to have blamed it for many problems. Both at WWDC and in private meetings, the company has either implied or openly stated that Flash has been responsible for frequent crashes. Plugin crash protection for Safari was built in part to prevent a Flash error from shutting down the entire browser.
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Goodness! Fix what you have, Adobe!
I wish Adobe would spend some cycles shoring up stability and performance of their Flash product on the Mac OS X platform, instead of fooling around with every other possibly-viable runtime platform under the sun.
Instead of great product, it looks like they're focusing on a lot of mediocre. Yes, I saw their interview with their CTO. What's the timeline for fixing the Adobe product on Mac???? Hello? Adobe???