A lot of comments in Adobe vs Apple stories seem to overestimate Apple's say over internet. India is #2 in total wireless mobile connections and #4 in internet usage .Still,Apple has sold less than 4000 iphone 3G in the country.3GS was released just a week or so back in the country.
Iphone ,ipad and ipodtouch still constitute a very small percentage of global internet accessing devices. Although Apple is The-Autonomous-Authority that runs the appstore/itunes econosphere, their say over internet users/developers worldwide is infact , negligible . Local internet portals in developing economies wont have any reason to port their existing content to an iAccessible format(particularly, existing flash games).I personally dont think Apple policies can kill Flash any time soon. Apart from this, HTML5 implementation is far from cross-browser compatible as of now( File API implementation ). Flash is going to be around for a long time.
Almost every designer I know has pre-ordered CS5. It's not just the iPhone compilation, it's a major major suite.
> stories seem to overestimate Apple's say over internet. India is #2 in total wireless mobile connections and #4 in internet usage
What is the state of Flash usage in India like? And do you feel honestly that Indian consumers don't want devices as fancy and sophisticated as mini computers (iPhones).
India is fascinating culturally to me. The fact that beer is such a small part of the alcohol culture there - almost everyone prefers liquor. The fact that India is so diverse geographically that English is the common tongue.