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Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers

Posted by Unknown on from the gnash-developers-weep-over-wasted-time dept.

larry bagina writes "Jason Perlow of ZDNet is reporting that Adobe will stop developing Flash for mobile browsers and focus on AIR and HTML5 tools. I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if 750 voices screamed out in terror and were laid off. But that noise was overshadowed by everybody else celebrating."

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  1. Re:The Whole Web by bberens · · Score: 4, Informative

    Easy, you'll use the most recent version of the flash player on your Android device for the next 5 years or so while people migrate.

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  2. Multiple source files by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it does! Hurray! - Dr. Zoidberg

  3. Laid off by rabenja · · Score: 5, Informative

    My friend sent me an email yesterday: "I'm about to go into a meeting where Adobe is laying off my whole team." He had worked on Flash for many years since Macromedia owned the project. After the meeting he said, "Just got out of meeting, I have a job until April 20, paid thru May 15, decent severance, but job will end."

    1. Re:Laid off by rabenja · · Score: 3, Informative

      We are in the Minneapolis area where a tech recruiter friend of mine emailed me this morning regarding his layoff: "IT unemployment in the Twin Cities is currently at 1.7%, so most of our clients have to use us because they can't come close to finding/recruiting talent on their own." I do not think that my friend will have much trouble in this area.

  4. Re:The Whole Web by amRadioHed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Adobe never enabled it for Flash for some reason which I can't understand, but you can force it (and many other large apps) to SD by using an ADB command. Not all apps work from SD, but Flash works perfectly.

    Leaving this option set can cause problems since you can't or don't want some apps moved to SD, so I just enable it temporarily when I have an app to move, then disable it again after by setting the option back to "0". Once the app is forced to SD it will stay there when it's updated in the future.

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  5. Re:One closed platform down! by Karlt1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-android-puny/

    But Android users don't buy apps....
    http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-android-puny/

    They don't surf the web
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20128243-264/android-browser-bumps-opera-for-no-2-spot/?tag=mncol;txt

    And even 2/3rd's of Google's mobile traffic comes from iOS devices....

    http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/two-thirds-of-googles-mobile-search-traffic-comes-from-ios-devices-18718/

  6. Re:At last! by jo_ham · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's not "astroturfing" when it's using actual, published numbers.

    Apple is one of the few PC vendors growing their marketshare at the moment in hardware (and this is *not* including iOS devices - those are measured separately). It's not a torrent, but it is measurable, non-negligable, year-on-year growth for the past few years.

    Just because you personally don't know anyone who bought one doesn't make anything that contradicts your single-data-point-anecdotal opinion automatically an astroturf attempt.

    But then, you won't believe me because I'm contradicting you. First google hit though:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/may/24/apple-sales-growth-pc-market