Comments on: Adobe’s Open Screen Project Indicates Strategy Alignment http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/ Simeon Simeonov on entrepreneurship, innovation & venture capital Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:24:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Simeon Simeonov http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/#comment-17309 Simeon Simeonov Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:13:10 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/#comment-17309 Tony, you are absolutlely right--widgets are the convergence point between Web and mobile. Tony, you are absolutlely right–widgets are the convergence point between Web and mobile.

]]> By: Tony Confrey http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/#comment-17306 Tony Confrey Fri, 30 May 2008 15:51:47 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/#comment-17306 Interesting blog Simeon, I've just started tracking it. As a web entrepreneur building on Flex/Flash I was very happy to see the Adobe announcement. One of our target platforms at textflows.com is the iPhone, and handhelds in general. We were disappointed earlier this year when the iPhone was opened up but without Flash support. In giving advice to others in a similar position I currently have to caution against the Flex/Flash route in favor of Javascript/Ajax, due to the greater ubiquity of the latter, particularly given the strength of Javascript in WebKit on the iPhone and Android. Addressing this platform support gap will be key, IMO, to making Adobe technologies the most appealing place to build and deploy RIAs. It builds on moves like the open sourcing of the Flex framework, the free SDK and cheap development platform, the release of Air etc. The goal for Adobe should be to make it a no-brainer to build your app on Flex and deploy on Flash and/or Air. Once they own the RIA platform the business model will follow. BTW another trend I see, which adds to the value of the Open Screen Project, is the convergence of widget and mobile based apps. It seems to me that building a widget with its constraints on screen real estate is very similar to building for a mobile device screen. I think we'll start to see apps that leverage a large screen with a fully functional web/Air interface where you build or create your content, organize your data, set your preferences etc; and a smaller mobile/widget interface where you view key highlights and keep up to date on the latest changes or social network aspects. -Tony Interesting blog Simeon, I’ve just started tracking it.

As a web entrepreneur building on Flex/Flash I was very happy to see the Adobe announcement. One of our target platforms at textflows.com is the iPhone, and handhelds in general. We were disappointed earlier this year when the iPhone was opened up but without Flash support. In giving advice to others in a similar position I currently have to caution against the Flex/Flash route in favor of Javascript/Ajax, due to the greater ubiquity of the latter, particularly given the strength of Javascript in WebKit on the iPhone and Android.

Addressing this platform support gap will be key, IMO, to making Adobe technologies the most appealing place to build and deploy RIAs. It builds on moves like the open sourcing of the Flex framework, the free SDK and cheap development platform, the release of Air etc. The goal for Adobe should be to make it a no-brainer to build your app on Flex and deploy on Flash and/or Air. Once they own the RIA platform the business model will follow.

BTW another trend I see, which adds to the value of the Open Screen Project, is the convergence of widget and mobile based apps. It seems to me that building a widget with its constraints on screen real estate is very similar to building for a mobile device screen. I think we’ll start to see apps that leverage a large screen with a fully functional web/Air interface where you build or create your content, organize your data, set your preferences etc; and a smaller mobile/widget interface where you view key highlights and keep up to date on the latest changes or social network aspects.

-Tony

]]> By: Vladimir DImitroff http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/#comment-17280 Vladimir DImitroff Tue, 06 May 2008 16:02:56 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/#comment-17280 Flash and iPhone: It's not too bad to be everywhere, but why exactly is it so terribly important for Adobe to be present on the iPhone? To share in the hype or - ? With no chance to ever exceed 0.1% of the worldwide market for mobile handsets, I don't see how iPhone can help ubiquity or, even less, revenues. The hype alone is worth it, though - I agree. 'We are on the iPhone' is a proud badge almost as precious as 'Intel inside'... Just a random thought. Topic is highly interesting, though: where Adobe will go next is almost as interesting as what they managed to do with Mangement and (implicitly) with Strategy... V. Flash and iPhone:

It’s not too bad to be everywhere, but why exactly is it so terribly important for Adobe to be present on the iPhone? To share in the hype or – ?

With no chance to ever exceed 0.1% of the worldwide market for mobile handsets, I don’t see how iPhone can help ubiquity or, even less, revenues.

The hype alone is worth it, though – I agree. ‘We are on the iPhone’ is a proud badge almost as precious as ‘Intel inside’…

Just a random thought. Topic is highly interesting, though: where Adobe will go next is almost as interesting as what they managed to do with Mangement and (implicitly) with Strategy…

V.

]]> By: Gregory Raiz http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/#comment-17271 Gregory Raiz Sat, 03 May 2008 17:06:46 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/adobes-open-screen-project-indicates-strategy-alignment/#comment-17271 I think part of this is that Adobe is moving their own applications online. PhotoShop Express is a basic photo editor and they recently acquired a company called Buzzword (recently acquired) is building an online word-processor based on Flex. I think they are making sure that the platform is ubiquitous so that the applications they write will be available everywhere. Also I suspect Apple has something to do with Adobe opening up Flash to mobile platforms. With developers coding apps specifically for the iphone and side-stepping flash light Adobe needed to make a move that would help get it's platform into the iphone. I think part of this is that Adobe is moving their own applications online. PhotoShop Express is a basic photo editor and they recently acquired a company called Buzzword (recently acquired) is building an online word-processor based on Flex. I think they are making sure that the platform is ubiquitous so that the applications they write will be available everywhere.

Also I suspect Apple has something to do with Adobe opening up Flash to mobile platforms. With developers coding apps specifically for the iphone and side-stepping flash light Adobe needed to make a move that would help get it’s platform into the iphone.

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