Adobe Lines Up Industry Support for Flash Player 10.1

June 24, 2010

You won't find Apple on the list of Flash supporters, but Adobe Systems has lined up some big name backers for the latest version of its mobile media player, released on Tuesday. Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) released statements of support from a number of leading mobile players, content providers and analysts for its long-awaited Flash Player 10.1.

Adobe's popular Flash format is widely used to display video and animated pages on the Web, but Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has refused to accept the software for its iPhone and iPad products over what CEO Steve Jobs has said are persistent security and performance concerns. Jobs has also repeatedly claimed Adobe hasn't moved quickly enough to deliver an acceptable version of Flash for mobile devices.

With booming iPhone and iPad (three million sold in 80 days since its debut) sales, the lack of Flash support doesn't seem to be costing Apple any sales. In dismissing Flash, Jobs said Apple is betting on the emerging HTML 5 Web content standard for bringing new media applications to portable devices.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is also a strong backer of HTML 5, but said Flash is a better solution for now in many use cases.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) said it's banking on Flash to bring high definition and other rich media content to new devices based on its Tegra processor....

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