Adobe, on the other hand, is also taking to dedicated steps, towards a higher level of performance and interactive capabilities in the coming versions of ActionScript and the Flash platform. If you look at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html you can see that “Dolores” and “Next” are taking steps towards a high performance gaming monster. This would also bring more power to designers that are making interactive experiences.

As it is now, I see the desktop player serving social games, campaign sites etc. with great looking mobile sites in HTML5 and native applications for off-browser experiences.

Some of the designers are realizing, that they cannot make a single site, that works everywhere, so while they are developing they some times develop, where there is more bang for the bucks – that tends to be Flash on the desktop and HTML/JS og devices.

Take a look at http://wearemaersk.com/ for a solution, that utilize Flash on the desktop, and effectively communicating via HTML on devices.

In addition to that, the user often leans toward Apps, when they wan’t “experiences”, and Flash is all about building interactive experiences, that can’t be done in HTML. When devices has more than enough work to do, trying to run HTML, in it’s new, more capable form, there is no need to maintain an expensive and ever changing Android platform.

That may be the one reason, why Adobe abandoned the mobile version of the player (for now), and focus on the desktop player, mobile applications, and all the stuff that HTML can’t do easily (and/or economicly)

Thanks.