Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away

CWmike writes "While Steve Jobs is betting his mobile platform on it, predicting Flash's demise is short-sighted, say industry analysts. 'There are many people who despise Flash, but I'm not sure they'd love the alternative right out of the gate. The open-source world has not blown everyone out of the water with their video work thus far,' Michael Cote, an analyst at RedMon, told Howard Wen. 'Adobe has spent a lot of time optimizing Flash, and I'd wager it'd take some time to get HTML 5 video as awesome.' Here are six factors that give Flash a strong position over HTML 5 and other alternative Web media technologies in the foreseeable future. For starters, While Android has made Flash a wedge issue, Flash is just beginning to show up on multiple mobile device platforms, Wen writes. Ross Rubin, an analyst at NPD Group, reminds us how Flash ushered in video on Web pages, but Craig Barberich, vice president of marketing and business development at Coincident TV, highlights the pervasiveness of Flash on the Web as we know it: 'Everybody is talking about video, but what doesn't necessarily get talked about is a lot of the interactive elements.'"

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It's a bit like the proverbial fish story.

[Anonymous Coward]

Two guys decide to go ice fishing. They set up their stools and get their drill out to make a hole in the ice when the hear a booming voice from the heavens.

 

"THERE ARE NO FISH HERE."

 

One turns to the other, thinking he might have just gone crazy and asks if he heard that voice. The other nods, a bit nonplussed. Thinking that maybe it's a sign, they move to another spot on the ice and get ready to drill. Again, the voice from above:

 

"THERE ARE NO FISH HERE."

 

This time, they quickly gather up their goods and move to yet another spot on the ice. As they get ready to drill, once again the voice booms out:

 

"THERE ARE NO FISH HERE."

 

Timidly, the first would-be fisherman looks up to the sky and asks, "Is that you, God?"

 

"NO." the voice answered back.

 

"THIS IS THE ICE SKATING RINK MANAGER."

I thought Flash was the future

[noidentity]

Wait, I thought SSDs and Flash memory were the future... Oh, you mean Adobe Flash. Headline could have been clearer.

Obvious company name is obvious

[allquixotic]

Michael Cote, an analyst at RedMon

No wonder he isn't blown out of the water by the open source world -- he's a RedMond drone :)

Some might say....

[ihxo]

Some might say Floppy drives are still alive and well.