Microsoft Accepts Flash For Windows Mobile 90
Ian Lamont writes "Despite Microsoft's aim to take on Adobe Flash with Silverlight, the company has decided to support Flash on Windows Mobile devices. Microsoft has also licensed the Adobe Reader LE software, so owners of Windows Mobile devices will be able to view PDFs. The two companies are working together on integration and OEM distribution, but Microsoft is still mum on when consumers will be able to use Flash or Silverlight on their Windows Mobile phones. The article points out that Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and LG already support Flash, but only Nokia has announced Silverlight support, and only on some models starting later this year. The other major handset maker — Apple — doesn't support Flash on the iPhone and has no plans to do so in the near future."
Re:What do you expect? (Score:2, Insightful)
Here's a a smartphone chart by OS [roughlydrafted.com] that I found...
If you believe it Windows Mobile has 25% market share, which, in my mind, means that they don't have a monopoly and can implement almost anything they want to, because there are
Re:Free implementations exist (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Flash sucks. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Free implementations exist (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Replace Flash/Silverlight by an open standard (Score:3, Insightful)
Silverlight's attempts to kill Flash will work out about as well as MSN's original effort to replace AOL. By the time it can catch up, there won't be any contest left. The real solution is to improve the HTML spec to the point where we don't need proprietary add-ons. WHATWG and HTML 5 will go a long way in doing that.
H.264 doesn't need a Flash playing wrapper.
iPhone 2.0 SDK: How Signing Certificates Work [roughlydrafted.com]