The mobile versions of AIR, for example, only supports Flash.
I believe there are plenty of Android phones that support Flash.
LEO: That's already done because so many smart phones don't support Flash.
Doing the same for Flash server will allow streaming video to many different platforms that don't support Flash.
I didn't notice that in the article, and it's one of the reasons Apple don't want to support Flash.
Alternative players have been developed before 2008, but they support Flash to a lesser degree than the official one.
That's a problem when exciting new smartphone and tablet platforms don't support Flash.
Secondly, the iPad still doesn't support Flash in any form, and at this point, it probably never will.
It also supports full Flash for video playback.
The web product functions with any browser that supports Flash.