Six months ago I started following Adobe's advancements in the creation of a cross-platform solutions for smart mobile devices. In general, it's nice that finally Adobe realized that it's time to do something about the close to zero penetration of Flash Player in mobile space (I'm talking about the real thing, not Flash Lite). When you think about the lack of Flash on smart mobile devices, all of a sudden the statistics that claims 99% penetration of Flash Player on desktops becomes irrelevant. Especially given the fact that search-engine optimization for Flash-based Internet applications is nothing more than an urban myth. If Amazon would redesign their Web site in Flash, they'd be out of business pretty soon - people wouldn't be find them on Google (Ichabod, the headless Flash Player proved once again that headless and brainless are synonyms). The news about automatic code generation from CS5 to iPhone as well as other droid-shmoid gadgets sounded exciting. But there was one thing that bothered me a little: Adobe was offering a cross-platform solution. Been there. Didn't work for Sun Microsystems that presented Java as "write once run anywhere" fifteen years ago. But hey, maybe this time it's going to work? Maybe Adobe will implement RIA with Flash smarter than Sun did with Java Swing? Adobe's CEO's mantra is "author once and get it across multiple devices", which is to me the same as write once, run anywhere.

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