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BBC Keeps Android Flash Alive In the UK

Posted by timothy on from the media-as-well-as-the-media dept.

judgecorp writes "Although Adobe wants to can mobile Flash, the Android Flash app has returned to the Google Play store in the UK after disappearing earlier this month. It has come back because of pressure from large organisations, in particular the BBC, whose popular iPlayer video on demand service uses Flash. The Android app is back, apparently for as long as it takes the BBC to move to HTML5."

2 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. Re:But not for 4.1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    all the things that the BBC iPlayer can currently do

    Such as what? The BBC seemed well aware HTML5 was the way forward 4 years ago.

  2. Re:But not for 4.1 by StripedCow · · Score: 4, Informative

    About the only thing Flash can do and HTML5 cannot do is DRM.

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    If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.