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Smokescreen - iPad demo #1 from Chris @ RevShockAds on Vimeo.

While there are NO facts, NOR rumors... yet... of this happening I think Adobe really should buy these guys out! Or at the very least, fund them and help them out. If you haven't heard, Smokescreen is a JavaScript render engine for Flash content. Basically, it will allow Flash content to run on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch) without the 3rd party Flash Player plugin. 

While the feature set is fairly primitive for now and the performance is OK, this is the largest middle finger Adobe could flip to Apple. If Adobe was to put some resources to aid these gents with Smokescreen (like they've done with the Zend Framework), it really could go further to promoting their Open Screen Project!

Just my $0.02

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I really wasn't keeping track of the D8 conference until I saw @Jason (Jason Calacanis) wrote,

"Steve Jobs just gave mad shout out to yelp and apps. Says apps are future, and that requires mobile ads--not banners. #d8."

MY PREDICTION... The App Model won't exist in 3 years!!! Yes, I'm saying that the brilliant creator of the iPhone is wrong. Count it... one... two... three years. This isn't a stab at Apple's iTunes (as I previous have... see: Apple's CEO Entered an Insanity Plea as the Reason for Banning Flash on the iPhone), its not a shot at Google's Android Market... I simply think that mobile web applications are the future, not these platform dependent apps, the nasty ego contests, especially the one with fascist curating habits from certain company that is named after a red fruit.

Please don't be confused. I'm not jumping on the HTML5 bandwagon. HTML5 is not the Holy Grail, as so many buzzword-loving tech reporters are saying it will be! As a matter of fact, its not even complete yet and won't be for another couple of years. It is still my belief that HTML5 will have its place for a few unique uses, but it can't and won't replace full RIA frameworks such as Flash, Flex, Silverlight, VB, PHP, etc...

I think the future lies within mobile web applications that run extremely fast, that contains high interactive, media-rich content that looks sexy on whatever screen size, and it will built on highly optimized JavaScript, CSS, HTML & your server-side language of choice (mine just happens to be PHP).

If you are considering an Native App (iPhone or Android) project, go for it! Now its a very hot trend, just don't be shocked if you see a shift coming in the near future.