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The BlackBerry Tour (RIM photo)
BlackBerry maker RIM is working with Adobe to bring Adobe’s Flash Player to the RIM platform.
The two tech companies made the announcement today at the Adobe Max developer conference in Los Angeles.
Adobe Flash is the leading web design and development platform for creating expressive applications, content, and video that run consistently across operating systems and on multiple gadgets. About 75 percent of online videos worldwide run on Adobe Flash technology, according to comScore Media Metrix.
RIM also announced today it is joining the Open Screen Project, an industry initiative to enable standalone applications and richer Web browsing to run on a multitude of gadgets running Flash. With this collaboration, the full Flash Player browser runtime experience comes to BlackBerry smartphones.
Monday’s announcement follows RIM’s announcement that a new version of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager software is available as of Oct. 2 specifically for Mac users. Up until now, BlackBerry owners with an Apple Mac had to use third party software to back up their calendar, address book and other data from their smartphone to their computer. People can also use the desktop application to install new mobile applications onto their BlackBerry.
Interestingly, BlackBerry Desktop Manager Software also integrates BlackBerry Media Sync, enabling Mac users to sync their iTunes music collections with their BlackBerry. Apple has not been as accommodating with owners of the Palm Pre smartphone, which was unveiled in June with the capability to synch and play iTunes selections on that gadget. In retaliation, Apple introduced an iTunes upgrade that disabled iTunes on the Pre. Palm retaliated with a software workaround that restored the connection. Apple responded with another iTunes upgrade that severed the link again. I think that’s where things stand now.
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