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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. [Locked] |
Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
Adobe Flash Player 11.1 will be the last version developed for mobile platforms. Instead they will encourage developers to use Adobe AIR and HTML5 going forward.
Flash Player will continue to be developed for desktops however, with version 12 in the works. But if all mobile platforms are killing support and a lot of people use these devices to access the web, I can't imagine Flash has much of a future left after this.
http://www.slashgear.com/flash-flushed-adobe-confirms-html5-mobile-focus-09194245/ |
Ookane  Title: Moderator
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
Adobe also laid off 750 people as part of restructuring.
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
Well iPhone is dominating the market, and Google doesn't have much of a reason to get in bed with Adobe, so they are doing the only thing left to do.
Should be interesting if they can live off the revenue from Photoshop, Premiere, and the other obscure programs.
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vn_jurojin Title: Insolent Insomniac
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
Sprawl-zero1eye- posted:
Well iPhone is dominating the market, and Google doesn't have much of a reason to get in bed with Adobe, so they are doing the only thing left to do.
Should be interesting if they can live off the revenue from Photoshop, Premiere, and the other obscure programs.
There are more Android phones that iPhones.
http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2011/09/26/android-tops-apple-iphone-in-market-shar.html
http://www.gizmag.com/iphone-4s-android-market-share/20108/
http://www.informationweek.com/news/smb/mobile/229000356
(linked more than one because people tend to argue  ) But I agree, this is a death knell for flash.
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
Good. HTML5 is better anyways and doesn't require retarded add on's.
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
vn_jurojin posted:
Sprawl-zero1eye- posted:
Well iPhone is dominating the market, and Google doesn't have much of a reason to get in bed with Adobe, so they are doing the only thing left to do.
Should be interesting if they can live off the revenue from Photoshop, Premiere, and the other obscure programs.
There are more Android phones that iPhones.
http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2011/09/2 6/android-tops-apple-iphone-in-market-shar.html
http://www.gizmag.com/iphone-4s-android-market-share/20108/
http://www.informationweek.com/news/smb/mobile/229000356
(linked more than one because people tend to argue ) But I agree, this is a death knell for flash.
True, although it's not really an direct comparison. iPhone is full product with profit all going to one company (and telcos). Android is an OS that spreads the wealth.
All the same, Flash didn't stand a chance.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
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Rumor is Microsoft might be giving up on Silverlight as well (mobile and desktop). I'm pretty happy about that.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Date Posted:
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
Android has more market share, but I agree that iPhone is dominating. 
Just look at the control Apple and the iPhone has over the carriers. The carriers pretty much do what Apple says. Google and Samsung can't even get Verizon to advertise their flagship Galaxy Nexus. |
Balor_Gafdan Title: Gun Toting Conservative
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
Ravynmagi posted:
Rumor is Microsoft might be giving up on Silverlight as well (mobile and desktop). I'm pretty happy about that.
Yea I saw that, I'm doing the happy dance. I hated having to support Silverlight.
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Steve Jobs was right. Adobe giving up on Flash for mobile devices. |
A bit of unity would be a refreshing change.
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