Follow-up to Verizon signs up for Flash Lite from [Ux]

..and now available on PSP, unless you like your SNES emulator too much to upgrade to v2.7. I’m almost tempted to do it though, just to try some of the old v6 toys out on that screen. Chrono Trigger runs like a bag of nails on mine anyway, so I’m used to jerky apps.

Writing about web page http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200604/040506Verizon.html

The agreement announced last week between Verizon and Adobe, to make mobile content available to mobile handsets using Flash Lite available is significant – the North American market is huge (~52M customers). It’s surely only matter of time before other markets follow. CNN’s report notes that…

…the move into mobile phone animation could double the number of software programmers using Flash from its current base of 1 million developers. That could translate into about $1 billion in additional revenue for Adobe…

Adobe isn’t intending to let Flash subside – the company is clearly fulfilling the aims it stated when acquired Macromedia. $3.4 billion is looking like a bargain.

There’s an update to Flash 8 Professional that adds support for developing in Flash Lite 2.0 – I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet but I’d like to explore it at some point.