Is Flash on Windows Mobile just a stopgap?

The blogosphere is abuzz with the news that Microsoft is supporting Adobe's Flash technology on Windows Mobile phones despite developing its own Silverlight multimedia technology. One blogger who's less than excited with the news is Aral Balkan, a Flash developer and an Internet junkie. He writes: "Flash Lite definitely has its place on mobile phones but that place is not to play back web-based Flash content ... What would excite me far more would have been an announcement that a mobile phone supported the full version of the Flash Player." He reckons that the iPhone created the expectation that mobile devices should be able to faithfully display the Web, which even then, Apple only meets halfway.

"A mobile Flash Player that rendered existing content would be a game changer," he writes, questioning whether that's the ultimate aim of mobile Silverlight. If so, is Flash on Windows Mobile just a stopgap?

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