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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Arrives For Android

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the look-what-we-got dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Adobe announced that it has released the final version of Flash Player 10.1 for Google's mobile operating system. The app will be available for download via the Android Market for those users who have Android 2.2 (Froyo) installed on their phones. Devices expected to offer the Android update include the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, Droid by Motorola, Motorola Milestone, and Samsung Galaxy S. Flash Player 10.1 was also released to support devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via over-the-air downloads and to be pre-installed on smart phones, tablets and other devices in the coming months."

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  1. Re:Calling it now by ahankinson · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple has pretty much said that it will anyway. The only reason they've given that they don't allow Flash on the iDevices is that it a) sucks battery life and b) Adobe has not yet released a mobile version that they felt performed acceptably on their systems. I'm sure if Adobe gets their ass in gear and releases a version of Flash that actually works on a mobile device, Apple will include it.

  2. I do not want this by Omnifarious · · Score: 1, Troll

    Flash is fundamentally user hostile. It's all about controlling the user's experience, not about what the user actually wants.

    Until there is an Open Source flash player implementation that can run the vast majority of Flash applications, I don't want it.

    Adobe wouldn't be in the platform trouble they were in if that was the case anyway. Right now Adobe has to be the one to create a player for whatever platform. If it were a truly open standard with a good interoperable Open Source implementation, they would no longer have to do that. They could concentrate on making high-quality authoring tools instead.

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  3. Re:First, we need froyo... by uprise78 · · Score: 0, Troll

    But isn't the whole gist of the Android argument on /. that you can download, compile, modify and install it yourself? That's what the whole iPhone is closed/Android is open argument has been for months. You already have FroYo if that is true.

  4. As an Android owner, it is a sad day... by ByOhTek · · Score: 1, Troll

    Now I can have the dubious claim of the cell phone with the biggest security whole.

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