Follow-up: Why Adobe’s mobile strategy is fundamentally flawed
I'm not asking you to give up and go home. I'm asking you to stop playing the wrong game.
Mobile
29 Dec 2009
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)
‘Avit: now available!
'Avit, the iPhone app for Safari Books Online that lets you scan the barcode from a book and read it on your iPhone, is now available for sale on the App Store.
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
Microsoft may suck at life but they understand developers
Yes, giving away free laptops to developers is desperation. But it's the same desperation every platform vendor should be feeling.
Why, hello there! I couldn't help but notice you smiling at me across the room. Oh, you're a mobile platform?
How interesting.
Yes, I actually lined up yesterday at 7.30am in front of the O2 store on Western Road.
Yes, after enduring my current hacked iPhone for close to a year at GPRS speeds, I was craving the promised 3G broadband speeds. The built-in GPS wouldn't hurt either.
Yes, I had no clue that I was setting myself up for a tremendous disappointment.