Thursday, May 13, 2010 Apple, Adobe, and the Flash eLearning Future Ive had a few requests from customers and prospects to address some questions raised by the firestorm of corporate rhetoric between Adobe and Apple and the "future of Flash". If youre not familiar with this subject, you may want visit these links for starters: Apples CEO on Flash - [link] Adobes CEO in response - [link] First of all, this discussion between these tech industry corporate powerhouses is far from over. Will Steve Jobs vision prevail meaning that Flash is going to eventually go away? MORE >>

Earlier this year I questioned why there was Still No Flash on the iPhone and iPad. It’s become quite clear that Apple (Steve Jobs) is going to block putting Flash on these platforms. And just like a few years ago when it became clear that you shouldn’t build desktop applications anymore, I think we are hitting a tipping point where you have to question building anything that uses Flash as the delivery mechanism. Scribd today announced that they are going to be changing their Flash player to be based on HTML5. What does this mean in practice? MORE >>

Most organizations need to think several times when it comes to which devices to target – unless they plan to gift iPhones or Blackberrys to their workforce. Related posts: Mobile Learning (mLearning) Applications – An Example Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player? I am currently traveling in the US meeting clients and prospects in various domains and of varied business sizes. The one thing that strikes me is the immense interest in the mobile learning solutions that we provide.I’ve Most important of them is the lack of operating system standards. See you there. MORE >>

With the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0 Apple has revised the Developer Program License Agreement to ban the use of cross compiler tools like Unity3d, Appcelerator’s Titanium, Adobe’s Flash CS5 etc. for developing iPhone and iPad applications. As per the new agreement developers can use only C, C++, Objective-C, and JavaScript to develop iPad/iPhone apps. However, to counter Apple’s refusal to support the Flash player on the iPhone and iPad by calling it a memory hog, Adobe introduced a new iPhone publish feature in Flash CS5. MORE >>

Currently the most common way to publish a Captivate project is as a Flash SWF, an excellent solution because SWF files can be used by the vast majority of the world's personal computers, browsers and operating systems. Your learners will not need Captivate installed on their computer to use a SWF, but they will need a modern web browser and the free Adobe Flash Player (www.adobe.com). According to Adobe, the Flash Player is installed on the vast majority of the word's computers. Over the coming weeks, I'll be highlighting all of the new features. MORE >>