Flash Devices
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
We Listened: Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC Is Available Again

As of today we are making the free Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC download available for developers again.

Here's a summary of what's transpired over the past week...

On October 3 we decided to remove the free Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC from our site for various reasons. After doing so, however, you—our developer community—let us know that you were not happy with the decision. You gave us your feedback by contacting us directly, expressing your opinions in our forums and other Pocket PC developer forums. Some of you spoke with me directly about this topic. Thanks to everyone who voiced concerns and contacted us. We appreciate your feedback and perspective, and most importantly, we appreciate your taking the time to let us know.

The developer community as a whole is very important to us, and it's essential for us to listen to your requests and provide the best resources and support we can to help you focus on expressing your ideas using our technologies.

You can read more about it here.

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10 comments

Great to hear. Is there any chance that there might be something beyond version 6 in the works for PocketPC?

By Anonymous Nathan Derksen , at Tue Oct 11, 06:05:00 PM PDT  

Hi nathan I saw:
" Future Development Plans

We are updating Flash Player for Pocket PC to support a newer version of Flash Player. Although we cannot comment on timing or distribution details, you can expect that when this update is available, it will be distributed in a way that is more closely aligned to the distribution model we've created for Flash Lite."

in the linked article.

Cheers Bill for listening...now we just need a player for win mobile edition...hehehe I can even point you to a petition:

http://www.modaco.com/Start_a_Petition_to_get_Flash_Player_for_Smartphone_2003_ll-t90926.html

:o)
Campbell Anderson

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Tue Oct 11, 07:40:00 PM PDT  

hypocritical?
Hide the free download is MM
Open it again is also MM

If you think the player is outdated and remove it, then you should not sell it again, double standard

By Anonymous Tom Golden Jr. , at Tue Oct 11, 11:54:00 PM PDT  

That's a good start:) Enhancements to the standalone player and some clarification on the FlashLite distribution model and I think we are there:)

S

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Wed Oct 12, 04:06:00 AM PDT  

Awesome, glad to hear that updates are being worked on to the player!

By Anonymous Nathan Derksen , at Wed Oct 12, 10:06:00 AM PDT  

Verrrry happy to hear that! - topherZ

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Wed Oct 19, 09:01:00 AM PDT  

Hi, Bill.
I'm Rodrigo Contreras, from CHILE. Hope you remember me.
I would be glad to show you my last project related to Flash on Pocket PC.
Don't know your e-mail, so I'll leave this message here.
Bye.
rc@simov.cl

By Anonymous Rodrigo Contreras , at Wed Oct 26, 02:40:00 PM PDT  

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By Blogger fenin , at Thu Nov 10, 10:27:00 AM PST  

Good to know that, as Flash developers, we can still get our stuff on to Pocket PC but how come there is no support for Palm OS???

I'm not sure that Macromedia are listening to the bean-counters or the marketplace :-)

Devices using Palm OS dominate the U.S. education sector by almost 2:1 vs Windows Mobile and there's a large number of Treo smartphones out there too both in the U.S. and Europe.

It would be great if we could get our Flash content to run on these devices also!

By Anonymous Graham Brown-Martin , at Tue Dec 06, 01:46:00 AM PST  

We desparetely need a flash player for palm OS.the current flash player 6 availabl after much toil is outdated.why can,t you guys make a latest version flash player compatible with palm OS.As was already alluded to earlier palm OS has a wide usage in the US education system.
Do something please.

By Blogger ekin , at Fri Oct 10, 03:08:00 AM PDT  

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