Flash 10 will be coming to a host of smartphone platforms by the end of the year after Adobe announced plans to port the desktop browser plugin to almost every smartphone OS. Almost.
Flash 10 is the latest version of Adobe’s near-ubiquitous browser plugin that adds animation and interactivity (not to mention horrible interfaces – usually on sites run by people purporting to be designers) to the web.
We recently looked at claims by Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen that the company was working with Apple to bring Flash 10 to the iPhone, but the news that Adobe will be porting Flash 10 to practically every smartphone OS except the iPhone would imply that things are not going as planned.
Flash 10 will appear on Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian and Palm Pre platforms by the end of 2009.
“We realised that, with smartphones, people want to browse the whole of the internet, so they need every feature in the full desktop Flash Player” said Adobe’s Zeke Koch.
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