Adobe and Qualcomm announced a deal today to integrate Flash into the BREW developer platform. The most significant parts are:
- going forward Flash developers can count on Flash being present on Qualcomm powered handsets (most prominently Verizon’s handsets)
- that there will be no Flash royalty that handsets will have to pay to include the Flash runtime which makes it a no-brainer for the handset vendors
- access to BREW APIs from Flash which means that Flash authors do not have to learn a new authoring tool. It also means BREW developers have a new developer tool available to them that is quite different to what they are used to (Eclipse and VS).
- it’s a setback for Silverlight as it’s further proof that Adobe is managing to get Flash into more places and obviously mobile phones have a huge footprint.
