Sony and Adobe’s huge incentive plan for S1 & S2 developers

Sony and Adobe launched ‘Adobe AIR App Challenge’ contest for the developers who are working for Sony’s forthcoming S1 and S2 tablet devices. This contest will give a chance to developers to win $200,000 in cash prizes. Sony and Adobe plan to offer cash incentives to boost the development of Sony’s new apps S1 & S2 tablets. Sony is all set to release S1 and S2 later this year.

The prizes will reportedly be given to developers to “build breakthrough mobile apps optimized for the S1 and S2 tablets.”

The contest is open to developers from the U.S., Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. The deadline for submissions is 16 September, 2011. The judgement will be “based on quality and performance, innovation and creativity, as well as overall user experience.”

Sony’s upcoming S1 and S2 tablets will come equipped with both Adobe Flash and HTML5 supported, allowing developers to create apps for the device using Adobe Creative Suite and the open Source Flex Framework.

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