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That is just a PR. If something was named flash player 10.1 (assuming the same product as on x86) it is just a marketing move. ARM is a complete different architecture, so ti should be a complete different product.

I agree, that there is something which could be installed on certain devices to view some video clips, but to call it the same name as x86 product (read sse3 plus directx acceleration) is total bull crap.


I don't know what you're talking about, and I'm not entirely sure that you do either. Adobe Flash on ARM processors runs the exact same swfs (with stricter memory limits, obviously) as Adobe Flash on the desktop. Adobe Flash 9 has also been on the Nokia N800 for a very long time, which is another ARM powered device.


Ok. I will try. It's true, that there is an libflashplayer.so on my Ubuntu, however it is a 32bit blob. You can check it with ldd. It is 32bit blob because reasonable performance (along with near 100 CPU utilization) could be achieved with high CPU optimization. There is also libflashplayer.so on N8x0 (with comparable ldd output), but I think it's all they have in common. =)




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