Verizon signs up for Flash Lite

Writing about web page http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200604/040506Verizon.html

The agreement announced last week between Verizon and Adobe, to make mobile content available to mobile handsets using Flash Lite available is significant – the North American market is huge (~52M customers). It's surely only matter of time before other markets follow. CNN's report notes that…

…the move into mobile phone animation could double the number of software programmers using Flash from its current base of 1 million developers. That could translate into about $1 billion in additional revenue for Adobe…

Adobe isn't intending to let Flash subside – the company is clearly fulfilling the aims it stated when acquired Macromedia. $3.4 billion is looking like a bargain.

There's an update to Flash 8 Professional that adds support for developing in Flash Lite 2.0 – I haven't had a chance to try it out yet but I'd like to explore it at some point.

Steven Carpenter : 10 Apr 2006 14:30 |  Tags: Flash Rich Media |  Comments (0) |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem