Google has pledged support for Flash in Android 2.2, claiming that being open “means not being militant about the things consumers are actually enjoying.”
The comments, made by Andy Rubin, a vice president for engineering at Google, stand in direct contrast to the attitude at Apple, which has banned apps developed in Flash from its products.
It’s a numbers game. When you have multiple OEM’s building multiple products in multiple product categories, it’s just a matter of time
However, Rubin claimed that by being so hard-nosed about its platform Apple was handing the smartphone battle to Google. “It’s a numbers game. When you have multiple OEM’s building multiple products in multiple product categories, it’s just a matter of time,” he told The New York Times
“I don’t know when it [Android sales overtaking iPhone] might be, but I’m confident it will happen. Open usually wins,” he concluded.
Quizzed on whether an open platform was actually important to end users, Rubin said: “when they can’t have something, people do care. Look at the way politics work. I just don’t want to live in North Korea.”
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