Time flies…
Wow… Time really does fly when you’re having fun! Almost a year ago, I joined Adobe’s platform evangelism team. I didn’t realize it was almost a year ago, until I looked in my calender and realized that I hadn’t taken any time off since well… a year ago. I’m convinced that proves that I really love this job! ;-) Meeting new people just about every day and getting them enthused about our platform is just amazingly energizing.
That being said, there are some exciting times ahead and the next few weeks were ideal (well… almost) to take a break. So that means that I won’t be updating my blog for the next coming weeks and that I won’t be approving any comments etc.
I am really looking forward to the next coming months. There are some exciting announcements coming. You do not want to miss our MAX conference this year! So I hope to see you in either San Francisco, Milan or Tokyo. I’m doing a session on workflows between Flash CS4 and Flex and also a Thermo hands-on lab together with NJ.
Oh… If you haven’t already done so, why not subscribe to my RSS feed so your newsreader can tell you when I’m back in action… See you all in a few weeks!
South Africans file their taxes using AIR
Last month, I was in Johannesburg and Cape Town for client visits, usergroup visits and an AIR camp. In all honesty, I didn’t really associate South Africa with “high-tech” but boy did they prove me wrong! On some fronts they are well ahead of other countries. One example is filing taxes. While filing (and especially paying) taxes is not that much fun, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) does everything they can to make it as easy as possible (something other countries can learn from).
Flash on the iPhone confirmed? We said nothing new!
I am currently in Brighton, UK for Flash On The Beach. During yesterday’s “Town Hall meeting”, a panel of Adobeans (including myself) was ready to answer any questions that would come up. As you can see here on the left, the room was packed.
One of the questions everyone asks all the time is when we will see the Flash Player running on the iPhone. Paul Betlem, Sr. Director of Engineering, answered the question by repeating what we’ve been saying for a few months now. When I returned to my hotel last night, I was amazed to see how many people picked up on his answer and how many people see it as the confirmation of Flash on the iPhone. Even Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, already publicly stated that:
…we are working on it. We have a version that’s working on the emulation. This is still on the computer and you know, we have to continue to move it from a test environment onto the device and continue to make it work. So we are pleased with the internal progress that we’ve made to date.
So to avoid any further misconceptions, here’s the statement that Paul’s answer was based upon:
Adobe is committed to bringing Flash Player to the iPhone. While the development work has begun, we can’t share more details at this point. It is important to note that we do need to work with Apple beyond what is available through the SDK, its emulation environment and the current license around it to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone. We think Flash availability on the iPhone benefits the millions of joint Apple and Adobe customers, and we want to work with Apple to bring these capabilities to the device.
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