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Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android

Posted by Unknown on from the ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead dept.

hypnosec writes "Adobe has announced that it will be making the Flash Player for Android unavailable for new devices and users from August 15 in continuation of its plan to discontinue development of Flash Player for mobile browsers. The company announced its decision through a blog post and further said that only those users who have already installed the flash player on their devices will be receiving any future updates. To ensure that this is the case, Adobe is going to make configuration changes on its Google Play Flash Player page."

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  1. Good riddance. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Flash has always sucked on mobile. I'm glad Adobe is finally admitting it.

    1. Re:Good riddance. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It seems particularly curious to kill it when they already have(and are ostensibly releasing security updates for, to the degree Adobe ever manages that) Flash 'working' on Android versions up to 4.0

      Do they gain something by killing their marketshare faster than they otherwise would through people gradually upgrading? Naively, I would think that they would try to milk the fuck out of that marketshare while they still can, and do some zealous hunting for alternatives.

    2. Re:Good riddance. by bluescrn · · Score: 5, Informative

      The thing is, Flash on mobile is very alive. Just not in the web browser.

      Look into Flash+AIR, you can build Flash content into mobile apps for iOS and Android, and this support some of the latest+greatest features, such as Stage3D (hardware-accelerated 3D graphics API)

  2. Die flash die! by onyxruby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These words have been a mantra of mine for years. I suspect that many other people share this worldview. The death of flash cannot come soon enough for many, many good reasons.

    I'll light the bonfire, who's bringing the beer? Is killing flash the best thing Steve Jobs ever did?

  3. Re:VM within VM within VM. by ciderbrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    Silverlight?

  4. Re:I wonder how many fools.. by Desler · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do realize that Flash videos are just H.264 in MP4, right? It's been this way for years. Almost no one uses Sorenson for Flash video anymore.