Microsoft Thumbs Nose at Apple With Flash Lite
Posted by Bob Warfield on March 17, 2008
I love it. Microsoft is adopting Flash Lite for its mobile phone work after Steve Jobs said it wasn’t good enough for the iPhone.
As Techcrunch points out, Flash is ubiquitous on the web. Apple should adopt it, iPhone users (including me) desperately want it, but Jobs is Jobs.
OTOH, Adobe won’t wait forever. They know Microsoft will eventually replace Flash Lite with Silverlight. Maybe they should do their own mobile phone software?
Which brings me to another question I ponder from time to time while commuting. Why doesn’t somebody clone the iPhone? Not just a little bit, but perfectly. Now is the time. There is no ecosystem to speak of despite the new SDK and big fat VC funds for iPhone deals. Jobs saw to that by waiting so long to introduce said SDK.
It’s odd, but given how Apple has gone to market with this phone by locking a lot of folks out, it seems like there’s an opportunity to clone it and sell some phones. Usually one has to look for the Next Big Advantage and not just clone, but I think here a clone would be fine.
What better company to build one than Adobe partnered with Nokia or one of the other handset makers?
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