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fredsanford
>>What happens to RIMM's QNX OS UI/platform now that mobile Flash is dead?<<

A better question would be... Who Cares?

Flash is nothing but pain if you're not in the mainstream.

jinushaun
Flash is still very much alive in the form of AIR. Adobe's announcement was regarding the browser-based mobile Flash player, not Flash-based AIR apps.

Browser-based Flash had no reason to ever be on phones because all it does is enable ads. Video sites could always fall back on regular video files.

codedivine
Flash is still very much alive in the form of AIR

Yes, this cannot be emphasized enough.

codedivine
I don't see the problem here.

1. Adobe is continuing the development of AIR and AIR 3 is coming to QNX.

2. RIM's Torch browser is one of the most standards compliant browsers out there, if not the leader. Even WebGL is coming to the platform.

3. RIM is also going to offer a native UI toolkit called Cascades and the demos look promising. You can also use Qt for native development.

edit: 4. ANd of course, there is also the Android app player supporting Android's UI framework.

farmerliao
I think RIM has already done too much damage to itself. They seem to be supporting every run-time they can: AIR, Flash, Android, QNX, BBOS. I think I counted eight at their last devcon. Seems like the whole thing is at risk