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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."
You sound like a very small and insignificant person to have a chip that big on your shoulder.
"Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people." Eleanor Roosevelt
Asshattery 101:
1st: Watch someone point out that maybe there's something wrong with being an asshole and pushing yourself to a early grave just to deliver some shiny frivolous thing that no one really needs.
2nd: Decide you really can't find a flaw in that but gosh darnit he said a few things you didn't like so he MUST be bad.
3rd: Try to make it into a personal attack against that person since you got nothin' else.
4th: Fail to notice that you are now talking about other people and therefore meet your own criteria for being a small person. Also fail to notice that GP was using Jobs as an example of a much larger phenomenon that continues to occur and be celebrated.
5th: Pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for being just as clever and special as Mommy always said you were.
Face it, you're an asshat. People in glass houses and all of that.
Can't believe they would actually hold out until it was certain Steve Jobs couldn't say, "I told you so!"
Yep. So on behalf of iOS users everywhere: we told you so.
Let's see, that's it for "openness" and "flash" so far as arguments for Android that have turned out to be colossal bullshit. What's next ?
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Jobs didn't blink when he said Flash will never work on mobile. He was convinced Flash was unviable way before Adobe acknowledged as much 4 years after the iPhone debuted.
He knew this day was a matter of time. It's the rest of us who are "surprised".
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