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Adobe Flash rams twice!
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 18:36 IST
Bangalore: Last week at FlashCamp Seattle the Adobe Flash crashed twice during mobile demo.Flash platform, while evangelist Ryan Stewart was demoing Flash Player 10.1 on a Nexus One phone when pretty intense example of Flash development full of 3D rendering, rich interactions, and cute little characters appeared for a few seconds before the browser crashed .
The site's progress bar filled in and the 3D world appeared. Ryan said, "Whoops! Well, it's beta, and this is an intense example let's try it again." He tried it again and got the same result. Someone shouted out "Hulu." Ryan said, "Hulu doesn't work,"
Nothing seems worse than being on stage in front of a bunch of techies and having your demo crash on you twice. Actually, it is more atrocious if you're Adobe and its Flash that's crashing on a mobile device.
Under normal circumstances, a crash at during an on-stage demo at a techie conference might have been no big deal. But the public sparring between Adobe and Apple over Flash has put the topic into the spotlight.
To be honest, Croft noticed that the problem with Hulu may not be Adobe's fault but might be that of Hulu. He notes that Flash on Android is beta, which means it's expected to be "crashy and buggy" at this stage.
The discontented natives are curious to see a full Flash player that works well on mobile. A demo that crashes does little to help build confidence around a product or to prove that it's almost ready for prime time.
