Decoding Adobe's Big Device Push

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 7, 2009 @09:36AM from the here-are-your-new-buttons dept.

nerdyH writes "Adobe yesterday chummed the waters around Flash and AIR as cross-platform app dev environments for mobile devices. It promised runtimes for several popular mobile OSes, including WinMo, Symbian, Palm webOS, and Android, with future RIM/Blackberry support hinted as well. Moreover, it reiterated its commitment to the Open Screen Project, an Adobe-led industry group that, if you deconstruct its name and look at its membership roster, appears tactically focused on enabling hardware acceleration of Flash/AIR on devices, as part of a larger strategy of making the runtimes ubiquitous as UI development frameworks for essentially every computer-like device with a user interface."

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ew by nomadic · 2009-10-07 09:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Adobe yesterday chummed the waters around Flash and AIR as cross-platform app dev environments for mobile devices.

Literally?
1. Re:ew by Locke2005 · 2009-10-07 10:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Is chumming the waters now a prerequisite before jumping the shark?
  
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  I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
2. Re:ew by Shikaku · 2009-10-07 10:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  In before lasers
Re:Who said anything about Open Source? by Shikaku · 2009-10-07 09:50 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh, I'm sorry, I though this was an argument. I'm in abuse. Terribly sorry about that.
Re:Seems like Adobe is waking up by raddan · 2009-10-07 09:58 · Score: 1, Funny

Awesome. I can't wait until they partner with Cisco and rewrite IOS in Flash :P