Adobe’s Better Mobile Flash: Coming March 18th

By  |  Friday, March 11, 2011 at 8:16 am

Adobe has announced that Flash Player 10.2 for Android–the first version that supports the tablet-friendly Android 3.0 Honeycomb and which supports the performance-boosting, power-minimizing Stage Video feature–will be available on March 18th. One way or another, Its arrival will surely restart the whole “Should iOS users be distraught over Apple’s refusal to permit Flash?” debate…

 
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  1. The_Heraclitus Says:
    March 11th, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Hmmm. Considering how ubiquitous flash is on the web, this will impact Apple negatively unless they act.

  2. David Says:
    March 11th, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    Sure. Those lines of suffering iPad buyers must really have Apple sweating.

  3. The_Heraclitus Says:
    March 12th, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    Yep, as the board looks at long term market share in the space, it does have them sweating.

  4. Denny Says:
    March 13th, 2011 at 8:28 am

    I refused to buy the original iPad because of lack of Flash. But I've ordered an iPad 2 even though I'm still annoyed about the Flash issue. I'd hoped the problem would have gone away, but it hasn't. I'll just have to get my Flash fixes elsewhere.

  5. The_Heraclitus Says:
    March 14th, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    This and other h/w issues, if not fixed, will cause the iPad to lose its market leader status. Apple screwed up with its PCs in the 90's and had to be bailed out by MS. I hope they have learned…