Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced at the D9 conference yesterday that “Android will overtake iPad just like it did the iPhone.” You may remember roughly a year ago when we mentioned that Apple’s decision to block Adobe Flash on the Mac would prove fatal to it’s longevity, well perhaps that one thing will not, but the overall philosophy is what is unsustainable. Sure, it is possible for Toyota to sell vehicles with their hoods welded shut, in fact, given the right hype they could get off to a record start. I can see the advertisements now: Cool Car: “What’s that, your hood opens? That’s so yesterday.” … Geeky Old Car: “How do you expect a mechanic to fix you if they can’t get to your engine?” … Cool Car: “I don’t expect to need fixing.” … Nice gimmick, but who exactly are we fooling here?
So back to Android and to our tech-savvy audience. The platform is wide open and we have a lot of fun developing Droid apps. Currently we still prefer the old and reliable Eclipse environment. We combine that with DroidDraw (I personally prefer to just type type the XML and avoid the inconsistencies) for layouts and have slowly gotten brave enough to do significant testing in the emulator before putting it on our devices. There are daily arrivals of some great libraries on GitHub and most of these are OpenSource. We’d love to hear of anyone developing their mobile apps solely in Flash (or Flex) on AIR. We have a client looking for this and could not honestly claim any experience with it yet, but you can bet we’re on it. It has been possible for over a year now, but my concern is what happens with phones that don’t have Flash? Is it still too early to recommend this to clients?
Well, this article will have to remain a “to-be-continued”. Until we get a better feel for the potential. Narayen may be producing precisely the buzz he’d hoped to.
I believe that things will happen as predicted by the adobe CEO.Apple’s decision to block Adobe Flash is a big mistake.Apple has to realize the role of Adobe Flash and other related products in internet.My best wishes for a great success for Android.
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A nice comparison of Apple Vs Android
A nice comparison of Apple Vs Android
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wow adobe seems to really have it out for apple, they just don’t get along
Honestly I’ve just been in a state of shock for the past few years by the fact that Apple won’t allow flash on the IPhone. But that’s not the part I’ve been amazed/disgusted about, it’s the fact that the IPhone users just sit there and take it like it’s not even a problem!
I’m just thankful that the Android platform came out to compete and offer a fair cell phone OS for those that aren’t blindly following Apple.
“Brave Predictions” is wonderful.it gaves anb futuristic idea of the both companies andriod and apple.the andriod in many ways are ahead of the apple but apple themselves are responsible for this and they have no other to blame as today 80% applications reqiure the adobe flash it is a known fact but they blocked it which took them backward and on the other hand the Andriod has the vast platform and the never ending applications make it more attractive and make sure that the prediction could be correct.
is wonderful.it gaves anb futuristic idea of the both companies andriod and apple.the andriod in many ways are ahead of the apple. but apple themselves are responsible for this and they have no other to blame as today 80% applications reqiure the adobe flash it is a known fact but they blocked it which took them backward and on the other hand the Andriod has the vast platform and the never ending applications make it more attractive and make sure that the prediction could be correct.but if apple take some drastic steps possitive then the episode apple vs andriod could be more interesting.
I think it would be stupid to disregard android, with it being OS, everyone can design an app, plus with the new google app designer, anyone who can use windows can make an app. the possibilities of new apps are endless hence the thousands already out there. I’m old enough to remember the windows / apple wars….. they didn’t last long, but android must be the way forward.
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