We all know Adobe’s Flash is as major player in desktop video, as most of the major streaming video portals use Flash technology.  Today, we hear news of Adobe releasing Flash Player and Air updates, specifically aimed at augmenting both their video and mobile footprint.

What Flash has been missing, from our point of view here at Heaven Interactive, is Flash’s extension to the mobile universe, and the tools needed for developers to create compelling experiences on-line.  As developers, we were promised that Flash Lite would give us these tools, but can we say that Adobe has delivered?

It may be a matter of too little, too late, when it comes to Adobe taking on the mobile world.  With so many incredibly interactive applications for the iPhone’, and Java developers poised to create similar experiences on the Google Android platform, where does that leave Flash?  Is it even needed?

I am interested to know what value-added benefits Flash will bring to modern mobile phone platforms, now that they have matured beyond simple applications, into rich media devices in their own right. What are the reasons a developer would want to use Flash to create mobile applications?

Hmm, well one benefit might be the ‘cross-platform’ nature of Flash.  But will it really play nice with the myriad of phones, screens, and operating systems in the market today?  Can it even come close to the ‘write-once’, ‘run-anywhere’ promise that it has stood behind in the desktop space?

Only time will tell!

Read more about Flash’s  upgrades:

http://www.crn.com/software/221800330;jsessionid=42GETAA1ZWNQBQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN

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Jay Harley is the CEO and web architect of Heaven Interactive. As a technologist, Jay specializes in creating business productivity software and offering clients high-level media consulting services. Before founding Heaven Interactive, Jay led a double life as a web consultant and MFA New Media instructor at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. At AAU, he enthusiastically developed several courses in web application design and scripting, and enjoyed daily interaction with design students, offering guidance, support, and camaraderie as a media professional. Jay is now squarely focused on providing Web 3.0 solutions to businesses in the form of collaboration and presentation software, by utilizing the power of the "Web as a Platform."