Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers

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."

Comments

Re:The Whole Web

[xaxa]

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.

I won't. The "built in" Flash on my HTC Desire keeps trying to update itself to the latest version via the Android Market, which uses the last few MB of space I have for apps. The only way I've found to prevent this happening is to "Clear Data" for the Market app -- deselecting the "Update automatically" box for Flash doesn't make any difference.

This annoys me greatly. It's supposed to be my device, HTC. (I would remove Flash completely if I could. I don't ever seem to visit websites that need Flash on my phone.)

Re:Rather Petty, Adobe...

[BitZtream]

You would be wrong. They may have SOME competent programmers, but they are a tiny minority at best.

Adobe's products will not run on case sensitive file systems.

NO amount of mismanagement can cause that. You can not end up in that situation with out actively doing things that are undeniably considered bad practice by anyone with half of a clue.

Re:Laid off

[amicusNYCL]

Do you write perfect bug-free code?

Is that what I claimed?

Do I have errors in my currently supported applications that were originally reported 8 years ago? No, I don't. You know what else I don't have? The resources of a $13 billion market cap, or 750 ex-programmers.