IE On ARM Will Be Flash-less

Alex Wilhelm:

Also announced today: Internet Explorer on ARM machines will not have Flash support.

Ryan Kim, reporting Adobe's optimism 1 year ago:

This year, the company expects more than 132 million smartphones to have Flash Player installed, including 40 percent of all smartphones shipped in the first half of the year, while more than 50 tablets will ship or be able to download Flash Player.

Danny Winokaur, Adobe's Official Blog, four months ago today:

We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations.

Anyone know any good Flash developer courses?

Symantec vs Lookout Mobile

Charles Arthur:

The dispute indicates that the conflict about the difference between [what Symantec believes is] malware and [what Lookout Mobile deems in just] "adware" – where software on the user's computer generates intrusive advertising.

I remember the endless parade of new IE windows in Windows 98SE when I'd gotten a virus of some sort or another. I can tell you the difference means nothing to the typical end-user. Besides… this (directly from the Android Market) doesn't sound simply like 'adware' to me:

Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.

Android is winning!

Also, from the same article, for free:

Rebundling often occurs when apps produced by reputable publishers are copied and then re-uploaded to the market by smaller publishers or by individuals as though they created them. Such copying is a persistent problem in the Android Market, where there is no pre-approval for apps.

(via The Guardian)