Yes, it sounds like SceneCon was a big success. There was plenty of interest in MorphOS 2.0 and we demonstrated a beta of a Power Architecture native Flash plugin on MPC5200B, MPC5121e and MPC8610 based systems running SUSE 11.0 (SUSE/Genesi).
In the meanwhile, me.com and the iPhone 2 were launched
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Oh me, oh my, no one seems to mind the lack of Flash support on the iPhone. Do you think Flash 10 will be out before Adobe realizes the iPhone is creating a new Internet? That is, one in which Flash is not needed, because more and more sites are being developed for the iPhone?! Perhaps, Adobe will move faster. Perhaps, others will finally begin to realize It's the End User Device! that make it 'work' for all the me out there...
BTW, we are developing a bunch of cool new devices.
The Community is the Computer - a Super Computer. Go Zig!
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SceneCon was a great event not only as a presenter, but also as a guest. I have not seen a working Amiga for 12 years and a working C64 for 20 years, and here I could see both in action. Of course, there were also many PC systems, but the response to the PowerDeveloper stand was very positive.
Don't fall for the hype around the iphone.
1 million iPhones and 10 million iPhone apps in the first few days says you are right. When Apple turns the iPhone into the PASemi 'mobileme' device that lets everyone do anything everywhere, then they will have established a new Internet. That Internet will be iPhone compatible and we will all need iPhones to use the Internet as a carrier for everything it is, which is likely to be much more than 'search, ads, and apps'. I see what you see and it is not Abode Flash, and it is not Android either. It is also not Windows, HP, Intel or Dell. You will probably tell us that it could be something new from Genesi that connects you to many different clouds and not just Apple's. You might be right. I will stick around for a while longer. You don't seem to be giving up.
@anonymous:
It's highly unlikely that Apple will establish a "new" internet. From a technologists' point of view, they are not doing anything new - nothing you could not do on a PDA 8 years ago, and nothing you could not do on a Smartphone 5 years ago.
They have simply, as always, repackaged it in a very, very smart way. You're getting the same internet, the same functionality - just like the iPod was the same old MP3 player with a music store (and still is!).
MobileMe is nothing more than a WebDAV filestore and an email account. These "iDrives" have been around since the dark ages (I was using one in 2001, oddly enough called "idrive").
Actually, truth be told, you're getting a little less functionality - the vendor lock-in and network lock-in might be breakable, but that does not mean it does not exist for most users, ;)
Try using a sync app other than MobileMe, a music store other than iTunes (you will still need to sync the iPhone with iTunes whichever store you use)..
When the vast amount of online games that use Flash use something different, and Apple doesn't re-encode YouTube videos in h.264, I'd be inclined to believe that.
Apple will eventually have Flash. A 600Mhz ARM chip doesn't have the CPU horsepower to deliver the experience that Apple wants to deliver. A 1 or 2 Ghz PA Semi-based ARM chip with embedded h.264 decoding and other hardware-accelerated functionality will. Remember that PA Semi was started by people who worked on StrongARM.
And, as usual, Apple will proclaim it to be a great thing, and the press will eat it up.
The internet is wherever (and on whatever) "the place for info|content" resides. I don't see Flash (or even Silverlight) as being a driving force for the internet or why people use it.
Although one requires a device, or interface, to get to the internet, at least in other senses, 'the device doesn't matter'.
People go on the net to find out things, to research, to communicate and, more and more, to conduct business transactions.
There is no 'new' internet--there are just new ways to exploit it, and what it offers. Some of these new ways are devices (like the iPhone, or other cell phones). We'll see even more when computers and TVs merge, after the February 2009, with the mandatory (probably illegally so) HDTV. When you can flip over to a UHF channel (or some other special channel or mode on the TV) and have that set to your home page, or Yahoo!, and surf around the net with your TV...that'll be the next 'new internet' ;-)
I don't think Flash matters all that much. One can turn it off and not use it, and still find what one needs online.
It's about the convenience of content; sharing and useage.
--EyeAm
EyeAm,
I agree that Flash isn't necessary for some people. However, for Joe and Jane average computer user, it means YouTube, Facebook, Scrabulous, Flickr, MySpace, ESPN.com, Yahoo! Games, and other sites which people use a lot, and can and will decide whether a device is successful or not.
Adobe also added h.264 video support to Flash Player, and is supporting Flash as a video distribution platform (check out Flash Media Server). ESPN, YouTube, and a growing number of streaming media sites (South Park Studios) use technology based on it (RTMP and RTMP over HTTP). It's actually cross-platform, and doesn't bind you to Windows Media Services, Quicktime, or Real Helix Media Server. Additionally, they just open-sourced the specs, and actually provide a player for Linux (try finding an official QuickTime or Windows Media Player install for Linux that supports their latest standards!).
You talk about TV and the Internet merging. Adobe has a huge piece of the video production market (Premiere and the whole CS3 suite), and bought Macromedia to get their hands on Flash. They now own an entire pipeline for streaming and on-demand video distribution due to the Macromedia purchase, from Premiere all the way up to Flash Media Server. Apple has this too (Final Cut Studio and Quicktime Streaming Server on OS X).
The difference is that their pipeline isn't bound to OS X at multiple points. Premiere runs on Windows (and OS X), and Flash Media Server runs on Windows, OS X, or Linux. Their clients run on Windows, Linux, OS X, and other environments via Gnash.
What it comes to is this: TV and the Internet are merging. Adobe provides the best value proposition to content creators to do live or on-demand streaming, and has a true cross-platform solution.
Flash is a lot more than ads. Adobe is positioning it to be the platform used to deploy TV to the world via the Internet. It also has a large amount of two-way interaction built in with robust network APIs, esp. with ActionScript 3.x.
You're right. It's not needed for the basics. However, for the future, it's critical to include on any Internet-connected device, as content creators use it to deploy interactive, live streaming, and on-demand content, which is what the customers want. Unlike Apple or Microsoft, Adobe gets it, and gives the creators a good value for the money (even though Adobe charges a ton for their stuff) by providing a cross-platform solution for production, deployment, and clients.
@matt sealey
Dude, Apple revolutionized the PDA market early on. And MobileMe is seen its various incarnations since the days of when it was called iTools; which was introduced in 2000 (pre-dating iDrive). If you want to talk about vendor lock-in, look no further than Microsoft and the Windows platform. Also look at Microsoft's silly imitation of an iPod called the Zune, which is the most closed/proprietary mobile platform on the planet.
I'm looking forward to Apple, Google and the Linux platform open the flood gates of choice so we're no longer shackled to Microsoft and the world that is Windows!
Oh, I am also looking forward to Genesi releasing the 8610 with the hopes that MorphOS 2.0 will be supported on it.
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