Adobe Systems delays release of its Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices until the second half of 2010. Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 has been widely publicised as being the first version of the company’s runtime that will enable mobile devices to play most of the Flash content originally designed for playback within web browsers running on the PC desktop. Flash Player 10.1 was previously scheduled to ship in the second half of 2009.
It has been seen that Adobe has problems in delivering the real version because the Flash content cannot play properly on the cell phones with small screens and those who do not have multi-touch environment. The latest version of Flash that is 10.1 would be requiring fast Corex A8 processor. Adobe is now planning to install the new 10.1 version in the Android and Palm’s web OS which are going to release in the next few months. Adobe would also be supporting RIM’s, Blackberry OS, Symbian and Microsoft phones which are scheduled for next winter.
A Flash Blog posting by Adobe platform evangelist Lee Brimelow comments developers can sign up now for notification when Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 betas are released. Specific dates were not yet disclosed. “We just started the private betas and we are really looking forward to getting these technologies into your hands as soon as possible,” Brimelow writes. “There are going to be so many interesting things that you will be able to do on Android and there are also going to be many new skills that you will need to learn, especially if you are new to mobile design.”
Adobe’s inability to ship Flash Player 10.1 on due date means that the company’s current 0% share of the mobile market will carry on through the second half of the year. The fact that more than half of the world’s mobile web traffic is instigating on devices running Apple’s iPhone OS also means that Adobe won’t gain more than a minority share of the mobile market even once it actually ships its first handy version of Flash for mobiles. However, Adobe Systems is still tingly over Apple’s decision to consent that all applications for its iPhone operating system must be written to run directly on the iPhone platform, effectively banning cross-compiler transformation tools like Adobe’s new Flash Professional Creative Suite 5.
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