If so, someone will be laughing in the after life.
ZDNet says Adobe has briefed developers that it will halt development of its mobile flash browser plugin.
Adobe's statement to ZDNet said:
"Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations.
"Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates."
Instead, Adobe will focus on: mobile apps; expressive content on the desktop (in and out of browser); HTML5.
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Of course, this represents a posthumous victory for Steve Jobs, who waged war on mobile flash – refusing to support it on iOS devices. He maintained it was a performance/security issue.
Others said he just resented third party control of an important element of the iOS experience.
Either way, huge numbers of users have been frustrated by that 'your browser doesn't support Flash' pop up.
And with more and more devices supporting HTML5, Adobe was always going to have to ask itself how long Flash could be supported on new mobile devices.
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Jupet W Nov 24th 2011 at 6:20AM
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