Adobe Kills Mobile Flash; Will Focus On HTML5 Instead
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Adobe Kills Mobile Flash; Will Focus On HTML5 Instead
Adobe today formally announced that it would discontinue development of Flash on the mobile browser. In a post on Adobe's conversations blog titled "Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5," Danny Winokur of Adobe, confirmed the news, which was first reported by ZDNet.
The announcement said:
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Wonder how android fan boys will react now.
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I still think there should be an option to enable flash for iphone users.
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Not even Adobe thinks so anymore. I'm betting they, as well as everyone at Apple, are much smarter.
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This goes to show that Steve was always right from the beginning about flash. What a smart man he was.
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I think apple's objective was to rid the web of adobe flash and have everyone to transition to HTML5 so you may see how that would conflict with their interests. Also, flash is and always was buggy with security flaws and a battery hog and not to mention probably would make it easier to jailbreak which apple doesn't want to make easier.
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Did Jobs call it or did he call it? Nice Jobs, RIP
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Got us there Jobs. . .
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Its funny how every one with a android phone would try and put down the iPhone by saying "iPhone's suck, they don't even support flash".
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There you go, even Adobe gave in to Apple.
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I think not supporting flash on iDevices was NOT a performance issue, specially if you are comparing it with HTML5 that runs slower than flash on iDevices. It was clearly a bussiness decision. One of the major reasons why Steve jobs (RIP) did not want to support flash was because he will lose sales on the Apple store (a lot of apps that do simple stuff could be done in flash and they won't be getting the 30% comission). I really think that it is a bad decision for the end users to ban flash player on smartphones, but it is a good one for Apple. So, I totally agree with you guys, Steve Jobs was a really smart guy because he knew how to make money but not for getting rid of flash on his iDevices.And by the way, I own an iPhone.
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They can't react with a huge boot in there mouths.
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The issue here is dumb people like you still believe flash for mobile possible while its owner has tried in vain . They still try to keep face so dumb wishers can keep their hope to live on.
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More like he caused it. And i'm thankful for it. (i'm a droid and iphone user). Flash has always sucked. No one with any sense ever thought otherwise.
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i think you're mistaking Jobs motivation. it has *never* been primarily about money.he was obsessive about "experience" of which performance is a major component.flash is really poor anachronistic tech that's been pushed along *way* beyond it's ability.RIP flash mobile :D
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I recon it's a **** move by adobe, and someone else agreed http://dkmvs.com/posts/363
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what are you talking about? are you saying people would use a flash based web app instead of an app store version of the app? lmao! who in their right mind would that?!
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I will tell u how i react to it.... By going to watch a falling skys episode off the tnt website and b thankfull that i finally switched to a way better os..
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Anybody that does not want to download a program the hogs up space and relastate for a simple little thing they could with flash.
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There is a bit of history when Adobe tried to mess around with Apple by releasing their new software versions on Windows first & delay the mac versions. Steve Jobs waited for his appropriate time to give it back to Adobe……. Even though Steve justified the superiority of HTML5 over Flash then while dropping Flash.It was foolish enough for Adobe not to acknowledge the superiority of HTML5 then; rather when Apple dropped it from IOS, Adobe displayed arrogant statement that they care a damn! rather foresee the future in Mobile platform.Now when they lost ground to Apps developers embracing HTML5, it didn’t make any economic sense for Adobe, thus announcing to stop Flash from the Mobile platform as they are not at mercy to serve the other 101 devices.
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In my opinion, flash doesn't really stand a chance against HTML5. The mobile environments seem a bit too sophisticated for the older tools.
