A new study from Strategy Analytics Inc. finds that social networking applications are driving the use of Adobe's Flash Lite technology. The popularity of social networking sites like YouTube and MySpace is driving the success of Adobe’s Flash Lite technology on mobile handsets.According to a new study out of Strategy Analytics Inc., social
networking applications are driving the use of Adobe's Flash Lite technology.
Strategy Analytics said the popularity of social networking sites
like YouTube and MySpace is driving the success of Adobe’s Flash Lite
technology on mobile handsets.
Moreover, Flash Lite’s Version 3.0, which enables mobile users to
access the popular sites, helped the total number of Flash Lite enabled
handsets to reach more than 960 million by the end of 2008, according
to the latest figures from the Strategy Analytics report,
“Flash-Enabled Handset Forecast.” By the end of January 2009, one
billion Flash Lite-enabled handsets had been shipped worldwide, the
company said.
Indeed, Adobe
officials said the company expects to have downloaded Flash on a
billion devices by the end of this quarter. In an interview with eWEEK,
Anup Murarka, director of partner development and technology strategy,
Platform Business Unit, Adobe, said Flash is expected to have shipped
on one billion devices by the end of this quarter, which will beat
Adobe's projections of having Flash ship on a billion devices by 2010.
And Flash will ship on an additional 1.5 billion devices within the
next two years.
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