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Google + Will + Save Flash, A Developer Who Uses It Says 
By: Robert Scoble 2010-02-01 I just recorded a 45 minute conversation on my iPhone while we sat on the deck at the Half Moon Bay Ritz with Luke Kilpatrick about Flash, Silverlight, Palm Pre... ...and a few other topics, but mostly focusing on what will happen to Flash. Luke is a developer who uses Flash in his work for Altus Corporation and he also runs a variety of user groups in San Francisco. Hes one of the few people I know who loves his Palm Pre and he is a Flash believer so I thought it would be good to get a counterpoint to my post earlier. At one point we talk about Adobes Openscreen Project where Googles CEO, Eric Schmidt, pledges support for Flash and the Openscreen Project. If you crunch the 45-minutes down it comes down to Google +will+ save Flash because Adobes 10.1 is finally ready for mobile phones. Adobe is, next month, going to show off its new mobile strategy, at the Mobile World Congress, he told me. Anyway, want a good counterpoint to my Can Flash be saved? post? Here it is. A few problems, though: 1. We havent seen the new Flash implementation for mobile phones. 2. We dont know how well Google will do in its fight for mindshare against Apple (and, so far, Google has been coming in #2). 3. Even if the implementation is freaking awesome and Google makes headway with it Apple will still have close to 100 million devices that wont have Flash on them by the end of the year. 4. Developers care about getting paid and so far Apples platform is better at getting them paid than other platforms. Will this change this year? Unknown. 5. Even if Adobe does everything perfectly and so does Google, Flash still has a major black eye amongst many developers. Can Adobe talk developers into supporting Flash with all of the angst Im seeing about it? Luke says yes, but Im still not sure. Another point of view worth reading is John Grubers Daring Fireball post about Flash. Developers go where the users are, he says. Id add developers also go where theres a fun platform to develop for and my other developer friends are slobbering over themselves to develop for the iPad. Yesterday I talked with Rackspaces mobile developer, Mike Mayo, who developed our iPhone app for Rackspace Cloud. You should hear what he says about the iPad (a longer video with him will be up on building43 next week). I recorded a short audio conversation with him too, which Im embedding here. What do you think, has your view of Flash future changed this past week? Why or why not? Comments Tag: Google, Flash Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl Have a bookmark! -  About the Author: Robert Scoble is the founder of the Scobleizer blog. He works as PodTech.net's Vice President of Media Development. Go to Scobleizer ... |
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