SAD News - CS5 Flash iPhone Dev and HTML 5

So I downloaded the CS5 trial today. I was all excited to try out the development for the iPhone through the flash IDE. Apple so nicely placed a quick stop to this type development. Effective April 8th, 2010. Developers must develop all apps in objective C or in a native language that the SDK defines. Forcing less competition. I guess there could be one nice thing about it, Adobe will now shift their efforts to the Android platform. Here is a quote from Mike Chambers (product manager)

We will still be shipping the ability to target the iPhone and iPad in Flash CS5, however, we are not currently planning any additional investments in that feature

Another quote that makes the shift evident: Mike Chambers

Android based phones have been doing well behind the success of the Motorola Droid and Nexus One, and there are a number of Android based tablets slated to be released this year. We are working closely with Google to bring both Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 to these devices, and thus far, the results have been very promising

As an android owner it makes me very happy to read this news at the same time sad due to the excitement I had to the release of the iPhone library within CS5 the sadness set in as I read the news in depth today.


Another sad piece of news, as all browsers besides IE have introduced the support for HTML 5 and the bones of its development. Companies such as Google and Mozilla are working very closely with W3C to make HTML5 the standard that people use. Currently FireFox 3.6 and Safari 4+ and the latest edition of Opera and Chrome all support the bones of HTML5 which starts putting flash development in the past. YouTube has announced its focus and drive to the new technology. http://youtube.com/html5 . There are nightly builds for all browsers and a very heavy effort to get HTML5 to start being the leading language. Many JS developers are super excited about the news, due to the flexibility that HTML5 has. Open video, audio, vector drawing and many more features. Many flash developers are shifting to adobe air as many flash developers will start losing bids due to the popularity this upgrade/update in the web is going to gain (and is gaining).

Well this was more of a personal blog today, however I thought it was informational to anybody looking forward to the CS5 release of Adobe's products, specifically Flash CS5.

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Mike D.
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