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Was just talking today about the future of Flash, considering the G1 and iPhone don’t support it. Hell, I spent a good hour or so getting my tag cloud to look good both with and without Flash support so this blog maintained good compatibility with those handsets.

Looks like they could be making up some ground at the moment with Bsquare porting Flash Lite over to Android for the upcoming release of Dell netbooks. I predict now it’s just a matter of time before it’s ported to these handsets.

I think you’ll agree it’s been bigger-better thinking for such a long time for most of the big players in this industry, particularly Adobe. How massive is their PDF reader theses days? It’s ridiculous. I uninstalled it after version 7 was released and switched to an alternative reader because I couldn’t take it any more. The industry is still catching up with the concept of people wanting more of the desktop experience on less powerful devices. I still suspect Microsoft’s approach is to get a strangle hold on the distributors to ram their outdated wares down our throat rather than actually improve their product, but I have no proof yet so stay tuned. As soon as I find out why there are only Windows netbooks for sale in this country I’ll post it.

Actually, while I’m back on the netbook OS topic again, I stumbled upon this little gem which appears to have no OS whatsoever! The Astone UMPC netbook. The specs aren’t too bad for the price, but mostly I admire their balls for releasing a bare metal netbook to the public. Viva!

Thanks to Gizmodo for the rather flashy heads up!

Tonight I spent some time looking around for places that sell Linux Netbooks again. Amazon had quite a few good deals, that sadly wouldn’t ship to Australia.

In the country I only found a few outlets. Penta and YouPrice are selling the 901 model with 20GB SSD for I think one or two hundred dollars more than what they are worth these days. I seen some people selling the Acer Aspire One with Linux. No one is selling the top end Netbooks with Linux here.

I remember seeing the prototype for the Touch Book a while back. Looks like they are just about ready for the market. I think I’ll hold out for these to hit the shores. Fingers crossed they don’t have Windows support by the time they reach Australia, the distributors wont order the Linux model if the current state of the market is anything to go by. More than likely we wont even see these before someone else releases a knockoff with Windows on it. Then I’ll be out of luck for sure.

Update: Actually it wasn’t the Touch Book prototype I’d seen, it was the Crunch Pad. However, I think the Touch Book looks a little superior with it’s detachable keyboard. Both are rather sexy!