Nokia and Macromedia Join Forces

Nokia and Macromedia have teamed up to provide Macromedia Flash content on Series 60 devices. I can’t explain how excited this makes me! I’ve had a good amount of experience developing applications for Series 60 written in Symbian C++. Let me be the first to say that this isn’t for the weak at heart. I’ve spent hour after hour trying to figure out how to develop a rich user interface in Symbian and fell short many a time. This led to total frustration.

Now let me get excited again. Leveraging Macromedia Flash and more than a million Flash developers is the right move for both Nokia and Macromedia. I think this will lead to incredible digital experiences in the coming months. Yet these experiences won’t come to the desktop but right in the palm of your hand! As an application developer I believe this will lead to much more fierce competition. With this competition comes higher quality applications and the end user will ultimately benefit. Stay tuned for more mobile contentas well as some mobile Flash source code (Flash Lite to be exact).

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