Success stories: Flash on devices
It’s all about the user experience. These days, everyone expects the same experience across all the devices they use while capitalizing on the unique strengths of each medium and device. The single screen world is already far behind us. People are now going online on their mobile phones, set-top boxes and even MP3 players. We also expect these multi-screen experiences to just work. When you visit a site on a desktop, you expect the same functionality and experience when you visit the same site on a mobile device. That’s exactly why Opera has embedded Flash Lite in to their mobile browser.
Sean D’Arcy (Director of marketing Opera Software): “Opera’s vision is to provide the best Internet experience on any device. Adobe Flash Lite brings an emotionally heightened experience to browsing from mobile and a wide variety of other connected devices.”
The use of Flash Lite has helped Opera deliver a fuller web experience that end-users expect more and more on any connected device. If they open up a site that has Flash content, that content will show in their browser as they expect. Opera Software also uses Adobe Flash Lite to bring rich web browsing to set-top boxes, portable media players, connected TVs, and game consoles—places where the ability to enjoy dynamic media enabled by Flash technology really matters.
The consumer also demands nice looking applications and interfaces that are responsive and easy to use. iRiver is one of the many companies that use Flash as the front end for their devices. Everything you do on the device, you actually control using a Flash application.
Jack Lee (marketing manager for iRiver): “Adobe Flash Lite software helps us answer consumer demand for devices that are both beautiful and highly functional. Consumers love the sleek, high-end design of our products, but they really appreciate the reliability and ease-of-use of the multimedia features made possible by Adobe Flash Lite.”
By building the user interfaces using Flash they can also bring products to market more quickly and it also greatly differentiates the iRiver media player from other offerings. iRiver first designs its user interfaces in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software, which lets designers follow their creative vision with confidence. Designs are then taken directly into the Adobe Flash Lite development environment where designers can see their work brought to life on the various portable media players.
Check out the success stories about Opera and iRiver on Adobe.com.
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