JD blogged today about a presentation Intel gave at the Intel Developers Forum where they formally announced that Adobe AIR would run on mobile phones with Intel's new low-power x86 mobile chips.
While this is a very nice addition, I doubt this means the end of Flash Lite as there will still be phones with less processing power for quite awhile. However, it is a very welcomed step in the right direction.
There is more information about the presentation on PC Magazine and ZDnet's websites.
[...] cool stuff going on with AS3, Flex, and Flash these days. I can only imagine where this will go if Intel and Adobe do indeed get AIR running on mobile devices. It could have the potential to turn wireless carriers into data-only providers — mobile broadband [...]
FINALLY! This is what Adobe has been needing to do for a long time. But please do it correctly! There shouldn’t be anymore of this flash / flash lite dichotomy. It should truly be WRITE ONCE, RUN EVERYWHERE. If you guys execute this correctly, you will be VICTORIOUS!
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