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Flash on 500 Million phones

While, my expertise and pervue is mostly on Adobe's video and audio apps, the inner geek in me likes to sometimes comment on technologies in general, at least if they're related to Adobe.  So, it was with a certain amount of loyalty and pride that I saw that Adobe's Flash technology has been installed on over 500 Million devices to date.  Now most of this is old news, but read on if it is new to you.

Now, in an effort not to gain readers unfairly, I DIDN'T mention the iPhone in the title or the initial excerpt.  What journalistic restraint, you say! I agree - I'll pat myself on the back later.

So, the iPhone is one cool device (I bought my wife one) and the past few weeks has had a bunch of chatter on whether Flash will make it to the iPhone.  I will most ostensibly stay AWAY from all of that, but rather I will point out that despite all of the deserved success of the iPhone, there are 500 million devices today that do support a Flash experience.  I'd like to think in the immortal words of Bill Cosby, "That's pretty cool."

In the press release below, there is also the mention of a new partner, namely Microsoft.

Here's the Adobe press release with the details.

Adobe Flash On: a cool way to look at content!-

Posted by Dennis Radeke on April 8, 2008 02:27 PM |

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