Comments on: Air mobile and Flex mobile, where Flash Lite fits?

By: Maximiliano Firtman

Maximiliano Firtman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:50:40 +0000

Here you have an interview with Adobe people talking about Flash and AIR mobile and a probably Flash Lite for lower devices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te8QbL_Vsxg

By: Scott Janousek

Scott Janousek — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:12:33 +0000

Phillippe, but wouldn’t you have to agree that most people are consuming a lot more content on those “very high-end phones”, though?

By: Philippe Chassany

Philippe Chassany — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:45:44 +0000

As Alessandro said, so much time/money already spent.
Moreover, a new fragmentation will be induced. AIR player will be only available for very high-end phones.
Even if the device turnover is quick (a little bit less than before with the worldwide crisis), it will take years to get a unique AIR player running on mass market phones.

By: Scott Janousek

Scott Janousek — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:15:15 +0000

Flash Lite’s long-term survival is up to OEM’s now. Also, there’s going to be heavy fragmentation. Already we are seeing evidence of this (but what else is new).

By: Maximiliano Firtman

Maximiliano Firtman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:43:12 +0000

Hi Alessandro,

I think Flash Lite will die on 3.x. It’s known that future mobile devices will have full Flash player and AIR runtimes, so it will be full AS3 runtimes. By the way, in the open source Flex project, there is a subproject to create some kind of Flex light, to have light components for mobile devices.

So, in my opinion Flash Lite will disappear, but not Flash in the mobile, only the AS2 “lite” framework.

Regards!