Adobe demonstrates and answers questions on Flash Player 10.1, iPhone Compiler, and Air 2. They show off Flash on all the latest smartphones leaving the question to Apple, what's your excuse now?
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Android Has More Free Apps
From a recent report from Distimo, 57% of Android apps are free compared to the 25% of free apps on the iPhone.
The average price paid for the apps between the two hover around $3.50.
Full details on Gizmodo.
Battery Performance with Flash 10.1
The guys over at FlashMobileBlog played around with Flash Player 10.1 on the Nexus One. What have they concluded? Flash did not drain the memory more than normal. The browser used 6% of battery life for the 199MB of data downloaded.
The full story can be found here:
http://www.flashmobileblog.com/2010/02/24/battery-performance-with-flash-player-10-1-on-nexus-one/A video of the Nexus One playing 17min. of a YouTube clip via the Flash Player was recorded:
Chrome OS Tested on Netbook
Someone has tested the upcoming Chrome OS on an Asus Eee PC T91 netbook. Looks like it needs to be calibrated and a little lag but it is not the final. Probably downloaded from the Chrome site and run in a virtual environment.
Apple Falling Behind
Apple has been reluctant to implement Adobe's Flash Player into it's iPhone OS. Some users feel that since the iPhone was a success without Flash, the iPad will be a success as well. This is not so. The success of the iPhone was fine because we all were coming from cell phones with basically no browser. The most smartphones back then were in the category of the Blackberry. Anything was better than nothing. If I could look at the full version of a website and the flash was not appearing, I don't care, I can see a webpage.
Now is a different story. The iPhone is stale, and has not been refreshed in about 3 years. Competitors such as Google, Palm, and Windows are catching up quickly to the iPhone. Adding in features most requested by iPhone users. By the end of this year, if Apple does not revamp the iPhone dramatically, it will begin to fall behind.
Right now you have the Nexus One. It has a 5 megapixel camera with flash, HD video camera, 480x800 screen resolution, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 (by this spring), customizable screens and live wallpaper, choice of browsers and media players, and even a mic on the reverse side to filter out background noise. These features have all been requested by users since the launch of the iPhone. Yet, no sign of them in the upcoming iPhone.
Now comes the iPad. Everything we had hoped it would be, it is not. Video conferencing? No, actually not even a still camera. Flash Player? No. Multi-tasking? No. Customizable? Not a chance. So why the hype? It will be the same tablet 3 years from now with a camera.
I can imagine myself now... Sitting on my sofa. In front of my TV. My iPad in my lap watching Star Trek on my 9 inch screen. Then I get bored and decide to browse the internet and run across a few sites that have Flash, not yet iPad optimized. Ok, well there goes that. Let me close my eyes and listen to my music. No visualizations, so I'll just stretch out my earbud cord and place it on the table next to me. Wow, seems like a very exciting mobile device! Can't wait till March. I think I'm going to wait in line all night for this one.
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