Nokia hops onto Flash Lite bandwagon
Just a few months after Samsung, Nokia and Macromedia today announced that they’ve signed a license agreement that will integrate Flash into the Series 60 platform.
This is great news and I’ve been waiting for this announcement since early 2002 when Flash Player support was announced for the Nokia 9200 Communicator. The 9200 was far from mainstream and thus was not very appealing to developers, and even Samsung’s license agreement didn’t get me excited, since at least here in Finland there’s really no point in developing anything for mobile phones other than S40 or S60 (with about 80% market share).
I hope Nokia will be quick to pre-install Flash Lite on all devices. It will still take a few years for Flash on the mobile to be so widespread that it will make sense to develop carrier-independent applications with it.
Follow me on Twitter!
Other services
