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Adobe Flash is dropped for mobiles

E.T.

Queensland

3993 posts

I didnt want to derail Wets thread and take it off topic.

So, it seems Steve Jobs was rigth after all eh. Sorry Android fans.

http://thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/11/09/adobe-about-face-flash-dropped-mobiles

Adobe has handed Apple's Steve Jobs a belated victory with its announcement today that it is stopping development of its Flash player software for mobile devices .Instead it will focus its efforts on HTML 5.

Jobs had long insisted that that Flash media streaming technology wasn't suitable for low-power mobile devices.

04:32pm 10/11/11 Permalink

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copuis

Brisbane, Queensland

1536 posts

it isn't dropped, they are not going to be making new versions of it, but the support will be on going for fixes

also, flash is old, and air is what is taking its place,

04:34pm 10/11/11 Permalink

Insom

Canada

3915 posts

how is html a replacement...

WWW

04:40pm 10/11/11 Permalink

teq

Brisbane, Queensland

11950 posts

html5 is pretty slick

also suck it to all the wankers who ever said flash not being on iphone was lame or whatevs

04:44pm 10/11/11 Permalink

Jayman

Brisbane, Queensland

572 posts

Flash is aids. Yay for HTML5.

04:55pm 10/11/11 Permalink

skythra

Brisbane, Queensland

4809 posts

So, it seems Steve Jobs was rigth after all eh. Sorry Android fans.>

He's not right until websites have stopped using it. His first 3 phones sure didn't fit into that category because they didn't survive long enough to make it into the generation where flash is actually dropped. Not sure his latest ones will either.

Dropping support for flash doesn't come from adobe, it comes from people who make shit in flash. They need to move on.

04:58pm 10/11/11 Permalink

glynd

Melbourne, Victoria

421 posts

I didnt want to derail Wets thread and take it off topic.

So, it seems Steve Jobs was rigth after all eh. Sorry Android fans.

hate to break it to you ... porn is the one that dictates the future of technology

05:00pm 10/11/11 Permalink

fade

Brisbane, Queensland

7075 posts

I'd rather be alive than right about flash/html5.

05:19pm 10/11/11 Permalink

Midda

Brisbane, Queensland

7625 posts

So, it seems Steve Jobs was rigth after all eh. Sorry Android fans.

This attitude is annoying. Sorry Android fans? For what? Because Android can run Flash? What exactly are Android users missing out on that iOS users aren't? They're not even abandoning Flash, as they'll still be releasing security fixes and the like.

I'm not going to defend Flash, since I'm more than happy for the web to transition over to HTML5 where applicable, but seriously, pretty much every major website on the planet still uses Flash for embedded video, which I can play flawlessly on my phone and tablet, and will continue doing for some time. What exactly are all of these Apple fanboys getting snarky about? Because their dead overlord didn't like Flash?

05:44pm 10/11/11 Permalink

Opec

Brisbane, Queensland

7423 posts

I was waiting for someone to post this, just surprised it wasn't teq or Billy.

05:57pm 10/11/11 Permalink

eski

Perth, Western Australia

544 posts

This attitude is annoying. Sorry Android fans? For what? Because Android can run Flash? What exactly are Android users missing out on that iOS users aren't? They're not even abandoning Flash, as they'll still be releasing security fixes and the like.

I'm not going to defend Flash, since I'm more than happy for the web to transition over to HTML5 where applicable, but seriously, pretty much every major website on the planet still uses Flash for embedded video, which I can play flawlessly on my phone and tablet, and will continue doing for some time. What exactly are all of these Apple fanboys getting snarky about? Because their dead overlord didn't like Flash?

MFQFT

06:50pm 10/11/11 Permalink

scuzzy

Brisbane, Queensland

14956 posts

Because their dead overlord didn't like Flash?

Plus it's a bag of dicks anyway, I mean flash is there in all it's glory in safari on OSX

07:04pm 10/11/11 Permalink

E.T.

Queensland

3994 posts

This news is about Flash on mobile devices. Not Flash as a whole.

07:09pm 10/11/11 Permalink

Obes

Brisbane, Queensland

9439 posts

This news is about Flash on mobile devices. Not Flash as a whole.

wow ET ... do you really think that ?

07:57pm 10/11/11 Permalink

copuis

Brisbane, Queensland

1541 posts

adobe says it's dropping further development of flash on mobile devices

obes reads this as flash getting dropped as a whole

08:01pm 10/11/11 Permalink

thermite

Brisbane, Queensland

8452 posts

Hopefully when Adobe invests enough in HTML5 they'll be helping people move away from Flash completely.

08:05pm 10/11/11 Permalink

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