Yep that’s right, Adobe’s video software that we are all used to using on the web but which so far, hasn’t made it onto mobiles is coming to mobiles pretty soon.
Not Flash Lite of course, which is already used on some mobiles, but which has limitations, what we’re talking about here is Flash 10.1.
It’s true, more and more of us are using our mobiles to access the web and not being able to view Flash videos has been a tad frustrating so really it was only a matter of time before mobiles had to have Flash.
In fact Adobe reckons that their software is used to deliver 75 percent of Internet video and 70 percent of web based games so it’s not before time.
Those days without it are numbered now though as Adobe announced at the company’s worldwide developer conference in Los Angeles this week that their Flash technology will start appearing on mobile browsers such as Microsoft Windows Mobile and Palm webOS before the year is out.
Then at the beginning of 2010 there will be public betas on the go for Google Android as well as Symbian operating systems.
Research in Motion have also said that Flash will appear on Blackberry devices too but we don’t have a timescale for that yet.
So what about the Apple iPhone?
Now there’s an interesting thing. It seems incredulous that practically all SmartPhones out there will be able to play Flash enabled videos, apart from the Apple iPhone, whose users are going to dip out, for the time being anyway.
Although Adobe is apparently working on Flash for the iPhone, they are on a different time schedule to everyone else, which means they are getting it basically last, certainly not before everyone else by the looks of things and not before next year.
Now whether this will have a negative impact on the iPhone is anyone’s guess, some are saying that Apple’s Quick Time competes with Flash but if everyone else has Flash surely Apple won’t allow the iPhone to suffer.
On the other hand we could well be hearing Apple announce its support for Flash in the coming months.
We can speculate all we like as none of us really know what’s going to happen but imagine if all of a sudden the iPhone wasn’t the in phone anymore and all because it can’t do what other phones can do.
That’ll be a first won’t it.
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