Comments on: Farewell Flash Lite Distributable Player

By: El futuro de Flash en los móviles | BlocketPc :: Flash Lite y Mobile Web

El futuro de Flash en los móviles | BlocketPc :: Flash Lite y Mobile Web — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:23:17 +0000

[...] Player mucho se ha hablado en la comunidad, veteranos de la tecnología como Alessandro, Mariam, Scott, Leonardo o Philippe han dado su punto de vista, pero creo que el post más importante de [...]

By: J2ME, Flash Lite, Symbian, Iphone, Android and Ajax news, tutorials, source code » Blog Archive » Adobe Flash Lite Distributable dropped

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:48:13 +0000

[...] weekend, with a totally unrelaxing news: as reported, among others, by Leonardo, Alessandro and Mariam, Adobe just dropped the Flash Lite Distributable Player, to entirely focus on Flash 10.1 (for the [...]

By: Flash Platform Distribution Service | Rive.be | Blog

Flash Platform Distribution Service | Rive.be | Blog — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:37:00 +0000

[...] to here, the Adobe Distributable Player Solution (Beta) is getting dumped. Mariam elaborates on this. This certainly doesn’t helps making the mobile world less difficult/confusing/complicated [...]

By: Raul Jimenez

Raul Jimenez — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:12:47 +0000

A terrible new.

The worst of all it’s that the new “solution” will come in a few months, maybe a year, and we know that a year it’s a long time.

What must we do in the next year? What can we say to our costumers? “Oh, yes, patience, AIR Mobile it’s in the next corner”.

Im sure that AIR Mobile will be great, but as Philippe said, Adobe underestimated the mobile fragmentation.

Maybe they must have a look to Java, like they did on ActionScript 3…

By: Philippe

Philippe — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:14:18 +0000

I agree but why Adobe tried this wrong way for 5 years!

Moreover why Adobe asked the developer community to embrace Flash Lite technology and why they built so many OEM deals (Nokia for instance) and … why they ask business partners to trust them

Status: millions of device are Flash Lite preinstalled or enable (downloadable player) and ~0 are Flash 10.x compatible.

Fragmentation is key and Adobe did not succeed to propose a clear technology path.
Mobile industry is quite complicated and it was underestimated by Adobe.

My 2 cents.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:52:45 +0000

@Marcos I agree that the Distributable Player with all its glitches was there to solve an issue faced by us. But now as it ceases to exist, I hope it only to bring in a more stable solution.

By: Adiós a Flash Lite Distributable Player y Adobe Mobile Packager | BlocketPc :: Flash Lite y Mobile Web

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:36:25 +0000

[...] comentarios negativos sobre la noticia no se han hecho esperar y gente como Alessandro, Philippe o Mariam han dejado ya algunas impresiones, con comentarios bastante clarificantes de lo que supone este [...]

By: Marcos

Marcos — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:35:02 +0000

Interesting thoughts Mariam, I absolutely agree with you, distributable player is not a real solution for flash lite content at this moment, but it was created to solve a big problem that affects flash lite… I hope Adobe give us other tools to solve the problem that you talked about, that it’s the big deal when you try to reach real customers: “reach out to users with good content without educating them about technology, runtimes or installation processes”.