When will Flash be ready for easy application design on mobiles?
The team creating the flash platform for mobile is taking the long view and working really smart to design a platform that will be solid and reliable and flexible for a wide range of apps. What effect will the iPhone have on the mobile application marketplace? The iPhone looks really sweet. But Apples success has been based on the fact that they will make all the applications on their devices, and this bodes poorly for everyone else. Apple is going to make a browser for the phone that will work really well with most sites, so if your application works well inside the browser, youll be okay. But if you make an application that needs to be installed on an O/S, you might suffer when the iPhone launches. Because I predict: its going to be the best selling device ever. (Many in the audience agreed with him.) From Shannon Clark: For mobile phone design requirements, look at the requirements for being a dot-mobi site. They include a lot of design suggestions for creating an app for the phone.
