Apple's continued decision not to offer support for Flash within the iPhone may have some unintended consequences (other than the misleading ad slap the company received this week) - now Adobe will release beta software to make Photoshop Express work with a Windows Mobile phone.
Adobe plans the release of a beta of a Windows Mobile application (for Motorola Q9 Music and Q9 Global; Samsung's Blackjack I and II; and several members of the Treo 700 series) which enables users to access its online service.
The application will work with the online Photoshop Express service, which is being rebranded Photoshop.com, which will soon be made available with an advanced service package offering 20GB of storage for a $50 anual fee.
It's a limited success: the Windows Mobile application won't have the image-editing features you'd expect, but will let users organise and upload images to the service from their phone.
Hey - but iPhone owners aren't left in the cold - we can use the Shozu app/service to move images to Photoshop.com from an iPhone!
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Irony
The Photoshop Express home page has a load of different pictures including one entitled "t-x-t 4 life". The girl in this picture is using an iPhone.
Maybe she's signing up to Shozu?
My idea has always been that
My idea has always been that Adobe should just make their own browser with Flash support. I don't see how Apple could refuse that. There is no violation of terms that I know of in making your own browser. It would simply be a stand-alone app that can display websites including ones with Flash. If they did this (and Apple didn't find a way to keep them from doing it), Adobe would probably pwn Mobile Safari.
I'm not sure, but I think the
I'm not sure, but I think the iPhone developers agreement specifically excludes browsers. Otherwise everyone would be rocking Firefox or Opera on their iPhone by now.
Opera has a mission statement that I read somewhere, to port their browser in some form to every device that can access the internet. The fact that they haven't done this by now for the iPhone suggests that they have been prevented from doing it.
i think it'll have a lot of
i think it'll have a lot of competition, Expecially from web based photo manipulating sites.
It's dishonest to give a full desktop picture in the article too - since when was a handset ever in the reach of that resolution?
I'll tell you why Apple isn't
I'll tell you why Apple isn't allowing Flash. As soon as they do, we'll DOMINATE their application market 100%. There will be NO need for their precious iPhone SDK. It will come, and when it does, the power will transfer back to the people.
You're joking right? People
You're joking right? People aren't rushing to download Flash applets to their desktops, so why do you think they'll do the same for their iPhone.
Apple isn't putting Flash on the phone because it's a bloated, power-hungry, speed-hungry pig. Geez, my MacBook can't even run Flash for more than 10 seconds before the fans come on full-tilt - and you expect them to put it on a phone?
Flash doesn't have to be
Flash doesn't have to be power hungry, certainly not when it's running on the Opera browsers optimised for Symbian phones. The Nokia sets with Flash get excellent performance and amazing video playback from so many different sites. Then again, if the iphone can't handle a clipboard then maybe it can;t handle Flash.
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