Alex Kosiorek

I have been monitoring this topic for a while...time to chime in. First off, even though Vimeo now has a mobile version of their site ready, giving Android and iPhone users the ability to see their "staff pics" and with the app coming soon...things in 2010 are going to change. With Flash 10.1 coming out, many new phones (including Android) will get flash support. I would guess this is on Vimeo's radar screen and when flash support is out there for Android and other platforms, hopefully Apple will finally stop restricting it from their phone. Personally, I have been doing some extensive testing of mobile devices. This testing has been on phone call quality (which the iPhone has some of the poorest scores) as well as for other multimedia rich features including video playback. Vimeo is one of the key test sites. This is primarily because I (along with my employees - kudos to them) produce many videos and post them on Vimeo (for quality) and YouTube (for popularity) Thus far, I have gotten Vimeo and other Flash based websites to work well on Windows Mobile devices (6.0 and 6.5 especially). I recently tested the HTC Tilt2 on AT&T using extra plugins/browser software and it played Vimeo without a hickup. I have confirmed that the new Maemo phones such as the Nokia N900 do not have any issues either. I haven't seen it work well on Android besides the transcoded videos Vimeo has created. However, this should change in 2010. Apple WILL have to make some changes in late 2010 to provide the same functionality of features. Hopefully, they can improve their phone call quality as well, but that is another subject.