Nearly every OEM besides Apple is now supporting, or has announced support for Flash on their mobile devices (via the Open Screen Project) … all except Apple, that is.

Will Apple have a wake up call later this year as Flash 10.1 appears inside browsers across other top tier devices? Some of the preview videos are compelling.

Sadly, this is not true for iPhone (or at least not at the time of this post):

Chuck Freedman had a recent post entitled “Why were there exciting Flash Lite devices at 2010 CES?”.

At CES, the Sony Dash, litl, and Light Touch were all Flash Enabled devices which were demoed.

Give it a read.

Lee has posted a new multi-touch API example (AS3 and Flash CS5 targeting iPhone)

Read about how Adobe has installed 20 Windspire Turbines.

If you hadn’t heard the news, the boxee box coming out of CES (it won “Best of Show” at CES), will be supporting Flash Video among many other media when it ships.

The Boxee box (partnership of boxee and D-Link) will be able to play Adobe Flash 10.1, H.264 (MKV, MOV), MPEG-4, Xvid, Divx, WMV, VC-1 and other formats, and will feature built-in 802.11n. It will stream 1080p, play Hulu videos, as well as support for Pandora, Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, and Flickr. It will no doubt support additional apps, plugins, and games. Looks like it has NVIDIA Tegra 2.

It’s reported to have “Flash Player 10.1 support”. I take that to mean it merely plays Flash Videos … but, I’m not entirely sure if the UI is native, or Flash based. Regardless of the technology,the UI is very well done.

BTW: It’s reported to retail $200 when it ships.

Here are some shots of the boxee user interface:

Here’s a video from the CEO:

Avner Ronen, CEO, Boxee – talking about the next generation of media

Lee created a video of multi-touch and gesture support on Windows HP TouchSmart and MacBook Pro.

Some of the AS3 API in 10.1 is referenced in the video, but there’s also a devnet up on multitouch.

No mobile love yet, but soon.

Christian Cantrell (Adobe) has written a devnet article on the new Multi-touch and gesture support on the Flash Platform.

This article describes the new multi-touch APIs available in Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta and Adobe AIR 2 beta. As more platforms become multi-touch enabled, and as users increasingly expect to be able to interact with devices using touch interactions, the Flash Platform will provide developers with the easiest and most efficient way to deliver ubiquitous touch-enabled experiences.

Good ready for an explosion of new experiences, across numerous devices and platforms, later this year.

CNN has a nice article on how “App Stores” are going starting to go beyond the mobile arena in 2010.

This reminds me of the talk (“The App Store Revolution Craze”) I gave back in 2009 where I made some speculative predictions on how the market could potentially play out going into 2010, as well as a few years off (in regards to App Stores and consumer purchasing on mobile devices):

Check out bullet #3

In regards to bullet #2, there’s no sign of slow down right now as I said in my talk (maybe in 5 years?! Who knows.). Most consumers (in that US, at least) are just getting started with consuming apps, on devices, actually. Plenty of time for markets to evolve and grow.

Mobile (as a whole) is way too sustainable an ecosystem with device hardware, operators and their services, as well as developers making apps for years to come. There’s far too much money being thrown around. I think it’ll be a long time before we see any decline of the boom of mobile and device industry. It’s no dot com era (but there are some “silly” business ideas out there that smack of that time).

Anyways, I thought the CNN article was nothing groundbreaking, but reinforces what I was feeling early last year.

Here are some CES 2010 Announcements around App Stores outside of mobile industry:

• Samsung announced it will open its own app store for HDTVs, Blu-ray players & mobile phones.
• Ford announced Thursday that several apps, including one that will read aloud Twitter tweets while you’re driving, will be available on some of its vehicles later this year.
• Intel launched a beta version of its app store, called the Intel AppUp center (www.intelappup.com), for netbooks.
• … these are just 3 out of hundreds of companies launching their own content stores.

Here are some great quotes from the article:

“Mobile computer chips have gotten so powerful and affordable, and it’s so easy to get on the Internet, that it doesn’t make much sense to ship a gadget with dedicated, stagnant functionality, … add an Internet connection and a software platform open for third-party programmers to develop for — i.e., open an app store — and you can enhance the capabilities of a gadget, thus future-proofing it, at no cost.”" said Brian X. Chen, who covers technology for Wired.com.

“The number of people who use Internet-enabled mobile devices is expected to pass 1 billion by 2013, according to industry analysts, meaning that demand for apps will only grow. And as more people grow accustomed to using apps to quickly check the weather or send a tweet on Twitter, more manufacturers will develop apps-ready products, experts say.”

I think this quote pretty much sums up what’s happening out there:

“When we saw the apps craze … [we realized] there’s a consumer demand there.
–Alan Hall, technology communications manager, Ford Motor Co.”

I think we’ll see a surge in digital home this year, and products and services revolving around that industry, plus bringing more digital into vehicles and automobiles in the next year.

He’s talk about developing using AS3 targeting various device platforms using Adobe CS5 (iPhone packager, etc), etc. I didn’t watch the whole thing, no time right now … but I’m sure he talks about Slider at some point.

Enjoy.

Just read over on precentral that webOS 1.4 is likely to be coming in February. Included in this release is the much anticipated Flash 10.1 web plugin. Looks like video is a pretty big piece of this release …

From Precentral:

“Ready for an update? webOS 1.4 is coming in February, and its bringing along a lot of goodies. First you can expect to have Flash 10.1 built-in, though the beta should be available soon from the App Catalog. Second, there’s video recording. Third, there’s the standard upgrade deal of better battery life, faster performance, and all that jazz. But Flash and video recording? That’s big.”