I’m getting ready to leave for MWC2010. Apparently this year Barcelona is going to be rainy and cold, just like 2009 was – but definetly 2010 is going to be a revival for the whole industry.

• Smartphone are the new standard – with school girls addicted to blackberry’s PIM and 1€ android smartphones, mobile services are getting to a next level
• The network too is evolving to support those, after AT&T network killed by numerous iPhones overloading it with huge data transfers, LTE is getting real and all the manufacturers are selling upgrades to the existing networks (AT&T just purchased it from Alcatel and Ericsson). IMS also is getting there bringin in “presence” and Softphone-based cross-media communications to the network core
• Value added services are getting bigger and bigger with the operators willing to act as a distributor to those new services and keep as much value as he can

Exciting times ahead, cant’ wait to see what’s new to be seen this year!
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When I co-founded Kamayo in 2005 (which was acquired by Streamezzo), we did most of our mobile services based on the Streamezzo technology which was and still is the only one able to provide a full framework enabling mobile developers to create applications that work on *a lot* of mobile devices and even low-ends…
The technology has matured a lot over the years and now it obviously can be brought to the “masses” of developers. To do that and to animate this community of experts Streamezzo just announced today at Mobile World Congress the launch of their developer program at http://developer.streamezzo.com where you can get the SDK and learn your way through the Streamezzo tools and language.

Freely downloadable, the Streamezzo SDK includes; Streamezzo Workbench (authoring tool based on the Eclipse IDE), Streamezzo Rich Media Server Developer Edition (J2EE compliant mobile application server), Streamezzo Components Library (Music and Video Players, RSS Reader, Picture Slide Show…), Streamezzo GUI Toolkit (Carousels, progress bars, animations…).

I haven’t been talking about Flash Lite for quite some time for a very simple reason, imho the subject is boring. Let me explain :

• Flash Lite covers only a very little amount of terminals mostly Windows Mobile 5&6 or Symbian series 60
• Flash Lite only worked as a solid use case in Japan on the Symbian platform to feature idle screen animations and tiny games
• The player is poorly integrated to the mobile phone platform and thus gives very little interactivity to available components such as dialing, text messaging and thus limiting a lot any business logics you would like to get inside your Flash application

Adobe made a big announce on their “Open Screen Project” in December where they announced they would remove any licensing fee on their player and push it inside their partner ecosystem on any MID (Mobile Internet Device – this is this year’s Mobile World Congress’s buzzword) and just released an Adobe Mobile Packager:

The Adobe Mobile Packager is a desktop tool to wrap a SWF application with a player version checker, an icon, and metadata into an installable file for user-friendly discovery on S60 and Windows Mobile devices. The resulting output file is recognizable by S60 (.SIS) and Windows Mobile (.CAB) operating systems, acting essentially like .ZIP or .AIR files

All in all it really doesn’t get me exited, technically this is no big deal, they could have done that for years and it’s just yet another announce trying to convince us that Flash is coming to the mobile like they have been doing for years (at least since 2004 which makes it 5 years) and yet none of the high end devices in my pockets are Flash compliant. And I still wonder how they’re going to manage the complexity of the ecosystem they’re building, this is going to be harder than handling 3 existing platforms (sorry, the Palm Pre doesn’t count until it’s released) which is what they are doing right now…
Adobe, stop talking big about strategy and start getting things done !