Comments on: Cool Macromedia Flash Player for Pocket PC for only … $499!? http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/ Fri, 25 May 2012 17:47:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wayne http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41056 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:14:22 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41056 Clearly this shows that keeping up with the hundreds of different mobile devices is not trivial for any company trying to get a player or an application to run on mobile.

]]> By: John Dowdell http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41057 Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:50:59 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41057 Update: We’ve figured out a middle path — those uncertified PocketPC systems can still do a free download of the 2003 Player, but we won’t be able to provide any support for such systems. Bill Perry has more details here:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/articles/fp6_pocketpc_removal.html
http://www.flashdevices.net/2005/10/we-listened-flash-player-6-for-pocket.html

I’m sorry for the hassle last week, but does this now seem like a better situation to you…?

jd/mm

]]> By: fil http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41058 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:25:02 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41058 This is what happened with Jeode in the PocketPC a few years ago.

Jeode stopped supplying the PPC JVM (Java) in PocketPC2002.

Depending on the device, Windows Mobile may or may not have Java support.

Unfortunately, for WM devices the iPAQ 5550 came with Jeode while the iPAQ 2215 did not (so no Java).

Flash appears to be goind down the same path.

]]> By: jk http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41059 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:19:52 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41059 Mike, you are technically correct but it means that if the OEM of your device does not preinstall Flash in the ROM then you are out of luck. It will affect a lot of people, potentially.

]]> By: Mike Krisher http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41060 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:44:37 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41060 Just a note of clarification, Macromedia is not replacing the free PPC player with a cost of $499. The Flash plug-in for Pocket Internet Explorer is going away. What you get for $499, is the ability to take your Flash application for Pocket PC and save it out as a self-running EXE. Meaning, the device does not need the plug-in installed.

If you think about it, this makes sense. It’s much easier to work with the OEMs on the SWF format running on the device and having more information about the device. With the new features of Pocket PC (VGA, etc…) the plug-in would be hard to continue to evolve constantly. It would require a lot of engineering resources I am guessing. However, providing developers a compiler for the platform is a much better use of resources if you ask me.

So Flash for Pocket PC is not dead. The plug-in to Pocket PC is just no longer supported.

Hope that clears up any confusion,
– Mike

]]> By: John Dowdell http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41061 Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:41:11 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41061 Update: Bill Perry has a group-approved message here:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/articles/fp6_pocketpc_removal.html

There’s also a feedback link at the bottom of the document, if issues remain, clarifications needed. (I don’t feel qualified to extemporize further on the story myself.)

Good…?

jd/mm

]]> By: Davey A http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41062 Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:15:16 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41062 The world’s gone mad.

]]> By: larryni http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41063 Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:23:50 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41063 Wow, I just checked the price in their UK store: £329 – this works out at $582.17!

]]> By: VictorE http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41064 Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:28:17 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41064 Too bad, I guess I’ll stick with the free Flash Player that they released last year.

]]> By: jk http://gigaom.com/mobile/cool_macromedia/#comment-41065 Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:19:37 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/cool_macromedia#comment-41065 No typo- that’s why I used the screen capture from their site.

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