200 Million devices and counting
Adobe say that 200 million devices have shipped now with Flash Lite, and there are now 300 device models out there.That's a lot of phones ... getting to some kind of level now where the numbers start to stack up for clients. Noice.
Labels: Adobe, Flash Lite
posted by Dale Rankine @ 8:39 PM
1 comments
1 Comments:
These Adobe numbers probably include handsets such as many of the models from Samsung & LG which use Flash Lite for menu UI but don't expose the Flash Lite environment to third party developers for use. This makes the real number of "usable/targetable" Adobe Flash Lite-enabled "handsets" that have been sold a lot smaller for third party developers.
Developers also should recognize the fact that Adobe is using the term "device models" in their definition, not "phones / handset models" for their counting definition. The Adobe marketing numbers may very likely include devices like the Leapfrog Leapster and many other more obsure devices that are not phones and which are locked down versions of Flash that do not allow third party development. The openly addressable target device numbers size for Flash Lite development by third party developers probably falls well below the 200M number.
On a more positive note, Mario Casario blog is reporting that Bluestreak Technology appears to be releasing a J2ME player that will enable Flash(R) to right on top of J2ME based player. This could allow a lot more handsets to play Flash content. Here's the link: http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/
Post a Comment
<< Home