Amazing Insight into What the iPhone Means to the Mobile Developer…
Many of my friends write Flash Lite stuff… They also are interested in developing content for the Wii… with the iPhone and the new Wii Ware SDK their interest in using Flash to do so may just have changed… especially with the new JQuery update.
I found this blog post especially insightful on what the mobile developer may need to consider on the iPhone and how it’s not playing Flash content might be better for everyone in the long run.
Posted on July 2, 2007
Paul Levinson Jul 2
Good thought. The iPhone’s been a long time coming – it’s been written about since 1979 … http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2007/06/iphone-arrives.html
John Dowdell Jul 3
I found that article pretty lame, when it started getting linked last week. What did you learn from it?
jd/adobe
Chad Jul 3
I found that in the case of mobile or non-traditional web users, going with the flow and continuing to pour new and more plugins on users my not necessarily be the best road to accessibility… in the case of Apple, they have chosen to firmly stay rooted in standards through the use of H.264 and Javascript and mangaed to get one of the biggest content providers on the web, YouTube, to do the same in order to put their content on these new devices.
Given the relative fragmentation of the mobile web (Brian McMurray’s posts on this are pretty good ‚Äì http://www.brianmcmurray.com/2007/04/02/the-fragmented-state-of-mobile-app-development/ ‚Äì http://www.brianmcmurray.com/2007/03/30/because-the-mobile-web-needed-to-be-more-screwed-up/), this is a major salvo.
While I develop using Flash pretty much exclusively for my rich media sites… a device like the iPhone does signal a significant shift in what a mobile device needs to have to be useful as a web client… do I wish it had Flash on it? Yeah. Do I wish it had Flash lite on it? Not unless it’s Flash Lite 3 with support for FLVs and treated as a equal in regards to AS3 and other modern Flash authoring methods.