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Please wait - this has not been confirmed yet!
Ok, I waited, now here's the confirmation from Adobe:
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html
Now what?
Here's another article for you to read: Adobe abandons Flash plug-in for mobile devices: report
Man that's awful news! I really think that this is a bad move by Adobe. I've used their products for years and the platform is excellent. From what I know it was just that Steve Jobs letter that started all of this. What I really hoped Adobe would do is to just release Flash player for iOS and wait for Apple to allow it to be installed. The Flash player for mobile devices works great on my Android phone. I guess we can wait to see what happens over the next few weeks.
From the way I read these articles, Flash on Android is going to die by neglect.
Allan
Well this is ironic, I come on here and defend the player, which works well for me and then all of this stuff breaks? "bovine spewing" lol? There seriously must be something going on here behind the scenes. I know that Adobe and Apple really have a close relationship on a lot of things (besides this Flash stuff), maybe Apple has some part in this?
I'm still sticking to my basic points regarding Flash. But obviously a lot of these things are out of the control of the developers and end users. I know first hand that it's a great platform but perhaps the anti-Flash sentiment embodied in that Jobs letter has just created to much undercurrent for Adobe to handle. You know this is really a sad day. Thanks a lot Steve Jobs, your legacy is screwing people like me over sigh~
Well, yeah, Flash worked so well on mobile devices that even Adobe gave up. But it's still Steve Job's fault...
Yes, of course it is Steve's fault that Adobe is now dropping Flash from Android, isn't it?
You were one of the very few that was saying anything good about Flash. Everyone else had complaints. Maybe that should tell you something.
Allan
Look what I'm saying is that I watched this stuff unfold and there used to be a lot of excitement about new technologies and doing cool things. Even if there were some bugs people like to test things and do cool stuff. It wasn't about killing off technologies or etc, it was about doing innovative things. Flash was great because of this but I distinctly remembering that when Steve Jobs wrote that letter and they blocked Flash from the iPhone that really was something weird. I understand that most of you guys love Apple, love Steve Jobs, hey I'm fine with that. However, like that picture above shows something is not right here. It's not a wonderful thing, it's really something bad.
I hope everyone really like javascript because if you are a programmer it looks like the people running that death star in the graphic above are going to force us all into it for the rest of our lives.
Dherten wrote:
From what I know it was just that Steve Jobs letter that started all of this.
That is the funniest thing I've heard all week! I didn't realize Steve Jobs was all powerful! One memo and he changes the entire course of another company's business?!?!? You haven't spent much time in the business world, I'm guessing.
BREAKING NEWS.
ADOBE Abandons Flash for Molbile Devices
(Wired Magazine). In an abrupt about-face in its mobile software strategy, Adobe will soon cease developing its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers, according to an e-mail sent to Adobe partners on Tuesday evening.
And with that e-mail flash, Adobe has signaled that it knows, as Steve Jobs predicted, the end of the Flash era on the web is coming soon.
The e-mail, obtained and first reported on byZDNet, says that Adobe will no longer continue to "adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations," instead focusing on alternative application packaging programs and the HTML5 protocol.
"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," the quoted e-mail says.
In the past, Adobe has released software tools for mobile developers that create a single platform programmers can use to make applications that work across three major mobile platforms: Android, iOS and the BlackBerry OS. While it's seemingly easier than learning all of the native languages for each operating system, some developers have claimed a loss in app performance when coding in a non-native language that then gets translated into other languages.
The move indicates a massive backpedaling on Adobe's part, a company who championed its Flash platform in the face of years of naysaying about its use on mobile devices. Despite Flash's near ubiquity across desktop PCs, many in the greater computing industry, including, famously, Apple Computer, have denounced the platform as fundamentally unstable on mobile browsers, and an intense battery drain. In effect, Flash's drawbacks outweigh the benefits on mobile devices.
Flash became a dominant desktop platform by allowing developers to code interactive games, create animated advertisements and deliver video to any browser that had the plugin installed, without having to take into account the particulars of any given browser. However, with the development of Javascript, CSS, and HTML5, which has native support for video, many web developers are turning away from Flash, which can be a resource hog even on the most advanced browsers.
Apple made its biggest waves in the case against Flash in April of last year, when Steve Jobs penned a 1,500-word screedagainst the controversial platform, describing it as a technology of the past. Jobs and Apple disliked the platform so intensely, it has since been barred from use on all iOS devices.
Despite attempts to breathe life into Flash on other mobile devices -- namely, Android and BlackBerry OS -- Adobe has failed to deliver a consistently stable version of the platform on a smartphone or tablet. In WIRED's testing of the BlackBerry PlayBook in April, Flash use caused the browser to crash on a consistent basis. And when Flash was supposed to come to tablets with Motorola's Xoom, Adobe was only able to provide an highly unstable Beta version of Flash to ship with the flagship Android device.
"Adobe has lost so much credibility with the community that I'm hoping they are bought by someone else that can bring some stability and eventually some credibility back to the Flash Platform," wrote software developerDan Florioin a blog post on Wednesday morning.
The drastic reversal in Adobe's mobile plans comes in the wake of the company cutting 750 jobs on Tuesday, a move prompted by what Adobe labeled "corporate restructuring."
An Adobe representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Apple made its biggest waves in the case against Flash in April of last year, when Steve Jobs penned a 1,500-word screedagainst the controversial platform, describing it as a technology of the past. Jobs and Apple disliked the platform so intensely, it has since been barred from use on all iOS devices."
See that part there? "controversial" platform ... Jobs and Apple disliked the platform so intensely ... This is what I was describing. Before that Jobs letter, I distinctly remember that there was a lot more exitement about the platform, but once the iphone block happened the apple users became distinctly anti-Flash and it created a whole new dynamic. I remember it quite clearly. Anyway, thanks for chatting. What the heck this is pretty weird for all this to just come out now.
Dherten wrote:
there used to be a lot of excitement about new technologies and doing cool things.
There still is. Flash just isn't the new technology and the cool thing anymore.
Dherten wrote:
"Apple made its biggest waves in the case against Flash in April of last year, when Steve Jobs penned a 1,500-word screedagainst the controversial platform, describing it as a technology of the past. Jobs and Apple disliked the platform so intensely, it has since been barred from use on all iOS devices."
See that part there? "controversial" platform ... Jobs and Apple disliked the platform so intensely ... This is what I was describing
So you are saying that the ONLY reason it was "controversial" is because of Steve Jobs "Thoughts on Flash"?
No one else had any issues with it?
And if thats the case, then Adobe dropped Flash for all mobile devices simply because Jobs penned, "Thoughts on Flash"?
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