It doesn’t take much to read between the lines of Adobe’s release of Flash player 10.1. Just one word sums it up – mobile. Adobe is working it’s tail off to get the newest version of Flash onto devices.

Adobe realizes that if the Flash platform is going to survive, it needs to get off of the desktop and go mobile. Enter Flash 10.1 with new features to program in the mobile environment. The highlights include support for:

• Multi-touch
• Accelerometers (used to detect motion of the physical device)
• Screen orientation
• and power consumption throttles

The other thing Adobe needs is to get the Flash player onto as many next-gen platforms as possible. So far the list includes Android, MS Mobile, Palm WebOS, and Simbian. Not bad, but the the iPhone and the Blackberry are still holding Flash at arms length. Those manufacturers have cited Flash’s power consumption as the reason to not allow Flash. We’ll see if Adobe’s latest efforts is enough to woo them.

More info at adobe.com.