Jag undrar om Adobe lagt allt krut på att få sin Flash Packager for iPhone att fungera och glömt bort att se till Android som faktiskt tillåter Flash har en spelare som imponerar istället för att krasha.

Flash kan göra så mycket mer än HTML5 för interaktiva webbplatser men Adobe behöver visa att Flash fungerar även på mobila enheter.

ON THE ANDROID FLASH DEMO AT FLASHCAMP SEATTLE

Adobe is already way behind in shipping a full Flash player that works well on mobile. The natives are getting restless, as they say. A demo that crashes on everything it tries is not an effective way to gain confidence that you, as a company, are getting close to a polished product. The bottom line is that those of us who attended FlashCamp got a demo of Flash running on an Android phone, indeed — and it wasn’t impressive. We never saw an example of a site that worked without crashing under this beta version of Android. So if I were Adobe, I may choose not to demo this thing until it’s really solid.

On the other hand, Adobe’s in a tough spot. Flash has been taking a (mostly undeserved) beating in the media recently, and I’m sure they feel like they have to show they’ve got something in order stem the tide. Like I said, the natives are getting restless.

Personally, I hope Adobe gets Flash working well on Android soon. Flash is still one of the greatest tools we as web developers have, and the idea that HTML5 can do everything that Flash can do and thus renders Flash irrelevant is completely inaccurate — patently absurd, in fact.