I initially wrote this as a comment in my previous post: Why Adobe's mobile strategy is fundamentally flawed as a response to Rachel Luxemburg's comment but it grew somewhat so, in the interest of keeping comments short and succinct, here it is in its own post:

"Frankly, if you’re that convinced that Flash simply isn’t suitable for the mobile space, then you’re right, you’re going to get very frustrated at Adobe for not giving up and going home." (Rachel)

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I can only assume that the source cited in this article on the rumored Apple slate was either misquoted or clueless when s/he stated:

"They've told select developers that as long as they build their apps to support full screen resolution - rather than a fixed 320x480 - their apps should run just fine"

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Tim O'Reilly has an interesting post titled Why Using ShopSavvy Might Not Be So Savvy in which he states that using applications like ShopSavvy and RedLaser to do price-checking while in a store is ultimately unsustainable as widespread adoption of this habit will eventually lead to brick-and-mortar stores going out of business.

I got alerted to the article by a friend since my own iPhone app, 'avit, is mentioned in the comments by Michael R. Bernstein: (more...)

Adobe's current mobile strategy is very similar today to what it always was: get the Flash Player on as many handsets as possible. Let's qualify that statement, however, with some all-important details, starting with differentiating the two types of Flash support that Adobe wants to implement on devices:

• In-browser Flash support (plugin)
• Standalone Flash application support

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Last week, my friend Mike Downey (who now works at Microsoft) tweeted:

Wow - can't believe we are giving away free laptops to all paid PDC attendees! Very cool! #pdc09

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