Today at the Adobe Town Hall session here at Flash on the Beach, a participant asked the Adobe panel if there were plans for Flash on the iPhone and Paul Betlem confirmed that Adobe is indeed working on it. This has been the talk of the conference so far - and the one new 'sneak peak' that has been revealed this week.
However, Paul was quick to mention that this comes with one cavat - since Apple decides what runs on their platform, they could ultimately veto the platform add-on and kill the project. It should be noted that if Apple agrees, Adobe will apparently have the player ready "very shortly".
The big question that now remains: what version of the Flash Player will it be? FlashLite? Flash Player 8/9/10? I would think with all the games they have running on the iPhone that they could get Flash Player 10 running pretty well. Or, version 9 at the very least.
You can read more details from other bloggers who are also attending the conference, such as Flash Magazine and read all of the "me too" posts from industry news sources on Techmeme.
I promise to post a recap of all of day one's (Monday's) sessions tomorrow, but I believe this warrants its own quick post:
It was announced today that Flash on the Beach will hold a conference in Miami, Florida on April 5-8 2009! Ticket sales will start in November. There has already been a lot of buzz around the announcement since this morning, so it looks like things are off to a good start.
I, for one, will welcome Flash on the Beach coming state-side if nothing else for the better exchange rates. It was announced today that out of the 1050 attendees, only 12 were from the states. Don't think anyone is wondering why! But really, this is a very exciting announcement - and everyone back in the states should be excited that there is another awesome conference option coming soon.
Has it already been a year since last year's Flash on the Beach conference? Yes, it has -- time to get my schedule in order!
If the conference is half as quality as last year, I'll be happy. Not to mention that this year I'll know a lot more people attending, so if you are one of them be sure to stop by and say hello.
You see, we came <head> to <head> with a company called Singularity Limited when their lawyers sent us a letter stating that they had registered Singularity as a trademark for, among other things, conferences. Although it doesn't appear that Singularity Limited currently runs any conferences, we decided to keep our <head>s and proactively change the name of the conference to <head> off a potentially lengthy, complicated, and costly legal conversation.
You can read a press release on the conference site with all of the official details, but know that nothing is changing here except for the name of the conference. The speakers (including myself) and their sessions will all still be present.
It should be noted that Aral has decided to extend the 'early bird' discount through the end of September, so you can still purchase your ticket for only $99 until September 30th.
I finally got around to watching the 360|Flex keynote with Mark Anders, Justin Everett-Church and more, and just like somanyothers have blogged, there is some really great information included on Flex 4 (Gumbo), Thermo, Flash Player 10 and more. While the video is over an hour long, it is worth the investment in time:
[Update: It has been decided that we didn't have enough interest to make the hub a reality, so we have decided to abandon a larger gathering in favor of a smaller group meeting up at a bar or similar. If you'd like to join us, comment on this post and I'll be sure to contact you with more details as they are available.]
