1. Personally I see this as a blessing more than a curse. Flash is good at what it does. If that doesn’t fit the bill (and integration is a pain), I would say look elsewhere. The important thing is to evaluate your options thoroughly.

2. This is changing.

3. First it’s Adobe, not Macromedia. This is an important distinction now. I would not argue that there are other players out there … but in my opinion, Adobe has the experience, capital, technology, and motivation to be very successful in this area of mobile.

* I totally agree that FlashLite is much more productive to do user interface than J2ME. The problem is that an application is not only user interface! And then Flash is really painfull when you go beyond simple stuff.

* The biggest issue with Flash, is deployment. Most of companies -including the one I am working for - are looking for customers! If there is a way to produce product with the same quality while reducing development cost, they will take it. But Flash is today poorly deployed….

* Do not think that Macromedia is the “only one” trying to solve the UI issue…

Great post. I totally agree with you on that. Most of J2ME companies are slowly accepting the fact that Flash Lite is the better option to produce Rich Media content for mobile devices, not because they LOVE Flash, but because they are recognizing it as a more productive and low cost technology that can make them more competitive in this emerging market.

As any other community, the J2ME folks LOVE their chosen mobile technology, but we must look to the mobile scene as a market and not as a “technology battle arena” for passionated developers. Companies doesn´t care about technology “passions” and ideologies, they are just there to make profit that can sustain their business model.

The last time i tried to post about Flash Lite x J2ME pointing out some major advantages of Adobe´s technology to Sun´s, my blog was taken down several times in the same week. I guess they took the “Write once, Debug anywhere” joke too seriously.