Flash on Android

[Arrqh]

As Froyo is in some people's hands now, here's Flash 10.1 beta vs. the Flash Lite that's been available so far:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/23/flash-10-1-on-froyo-goes-tete-a-tete-with-flash-lite-4-on-eclai/

 

[STR]

It's alright. I've found that most of the flash i use are youtube links, which my N1 could handle fine already. A nice feature is the browser's "on demand" plugin feature. With it enabled, the browser doesn't automatically load the flash content, but if I tap on a flash frame, it will then load all the flash on your current page. Click a link and it goes back to no flash on the new page. All in all a very slick implementation. The media itself is inconsistent, but that is to be expected since Adobe hasnt yet enabled hardware acceleration, leavibg the CPU under a lot of strain.

Also, just to put some numbers in this marketshare debate, according to Apple's last financial statement, and Google's IO announcement, Apple is selling a little more than 200.000 iphones a WEEK. Google is seeing 100,000 newly activated android phones a DAY.

 

[TheBrew]

So 3.5-1 in Android's favor. To be fair, there are a lot more Android phones compared to the 3 possible iPhones someone could buy.

 

[STR]

Well, there is some ambiguity. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said 2 weeks ago that roughly 65,000 android handsets were being sold a day. That was before the HTC Droid Incredible was launched, which apparently is on track to sell as well if not better than the Motorola Droid. We also have the WiMAX Evo on Sprint launching in the next week or so, which is another flagship of the OS.

It is entirely conceivable that the jump from 65,000 to 100,000 is from one popular phone model. Even the Nexus One, which is a dev phone with a half-assed attempt at consumer marketing, sold 5K-10K a day at first. This will of course decline somewhat as the initial buying surge is over, but may be extended as the Incredible has been consistently sold out due to parts shortages.