Tuesday, September 30, 2008

How do get the Adobe iPhone kids excited.

It's simple, turn up to an event, tell all attendees that you have a pre-cooked runtime baked and ready to be deployed onto the beloved iPhone.

Now sit back and wait for these kids to tell other kids and just like a really bad Seth Godin game plan (flip the funnel) the world will simply eat it up...

Just like throwing a single bone into a sandbox filled with puppies, they are all slobbering and wetting themselves over the very thought of having Flash on the iPhone.

Take Igor, he seems to be bit of a Adobe Flash fan, and his response to the equation is to fight the existence that Adobe Flash isn't immature and Apple are simply playing hard to get.

Sorry to burst the bubble here Igor, but this is something you won't read in next months "Adobe Devconnection".

Apple & Microsoft have had to release security updates and patches to compensate for Adobe's inability to keep their oh so powerful run time secure. That's right, it's the only technology in the world that has had operating system vendors fix their crap for them.

Now, you expect Apple to cave to Adobe fanboi demand and inject a security nightmare waiting to happen onto their beloved iPhone just so Adobe can stroke their ego around promoting the fairytale about being "open screen".

The moment Apple inject Flash on the iPhone, all bets are off for Apple. They may as well suck it up and make a bid to take over Adobe should that happen, as despite Adobe Flash's awesome ability to fight above its weight, it's still Flash.

Adobe's attempt to hijack the iPhone by public pressure is weak at best and for a company that's fighting with Google, Microsoft and now Apple it's also going to help their stock price even more right?

Stick to the basics Kevin Lynch.