that's not quite right, Adobe have introduced Flash Builder for mobile devices, haven't got far into it, but it looks promising. 

Also have on good authority from an adobe employee that Flash will continue with HTML 5 capabilities.

regards
Keith

On 4 Jan 2012, at 10:23, Joe Cutting wrote:

> >>
> Please note, in December Adobe announced that they would be discontinuing Mobile Flash in favour of having their tools become the
> premier HTML5 editing suite for mobile devices.
> 
> It is not recommended that anyone build new sites using Flash for mobile platforms.  Similar news has leaked from Microsoft that likely
> Silverlight is also on the way out.
> >>
> They're discontinuing the mobile version so that they can concentrate resources on the version which makes Apps for Android and iOs. This means that Flash is still a pretty good option for museum terminals whether you're running them on a PC, Android tablet or iPad.
> If you want to make a website which is viewable on a mobile device (rather than an App)  then HTML is the way to go but at the moment HTML is slower than Flash so you won't be able to do anything too resource hungry - particularly on a mobile device. The development tools for HTML are also currently less well developed so development will take longer, although this may change. There's a whole list of pros and cons depending on what you want to do but there definitely isn't a clear winner which applies in every situation.
> 
> I've also been following the Raspberry Pi development with a lot of interest and think its a great idea. I'm also concerned that someone will ask me to use one for a touchscreen terminal. They are very low powered devices - the processor is similar to a sub £100 mobile phone and museum terminal software written for one would take twice as long to make something half as good. If you only want one or two terminals and you're spending £1000's for your software development using a Raspberry PI to save yourself £200 on the computer doesn't make much sense.
> 
> As Eric says, it might make more sense for video but you'd want to do some quality tests to make sure the Raspberry Pi video was as good as a dedicated player like a Brightsign (<http://pixels.uk.com/products/BrightSign/HD110.htm>http://pixels.uk.com/products/BrightSign/HD110.htm) before making a final decision. Particularly if you've spent several thousand on getting the video made.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
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