I have a confession to make: I use a really, really, simple Nokia cell phone. It's not "smart" by any means. I've been badly burned by a Windows Mobile 6 device, and ever since then I've been sitting on the sidelines of the burgeoning smartphone market, and wondering how the chips are going to fall, in terms of operating systems.
Just off the top of my mind, I can quickly list iPhone OS, Android, the new Windows 7 Series, Nokia's new Symbian version, and WebOS. I'm probably missing something, and this is just the latest crop (Symbian S60 not included, for example).
This leaves developers with an interesting problem: Which platform should I invest in? That's a pretty tricky question. The Apple App Store is all established, but the Android Market is showing some pretty strong vital signs, and the other platform are emerging too.
So there's a real need here, and this is where Adobe comes in. Air, bloated as it may be, is indeed cross-platform (on PC) and it's pretty powerful. And now they're trying to take that same power to the mobile market. Right now they have a simple demo page up, but the Air applications (down the right column) are pretty interesting. That's a South Park avatar maker you see in the screenshot, running on a Motorola Droid.
Where the Apple-Adobe fight takes this -- only time will tell.
Adobe AIR for Mobile enables cross-platform mobile applications originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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