Adobe Discontinues Development of Flash Player on Mobile Devices

[Kaibelf]

Hopefully we can end the commercials that treat flash as a positive thing next.

 

[kiljoy616]

Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Adobe bloatware dies. Oh if only Steve was here to gloat.

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Does this mean that Flash is going to be defunct and the standard video will be HTML5?

Not really, it just means that on mobile system like phones and tablets flash will be converted to html5 or something new and light. I guess we will have to wait and see if Adobe has actually something in their bag of tricks.

 

[haruhiko]

Steve is smiling on the iCloud: "I told ya!"

 

[wikus]

does this mean learning flash action script is nearing its end of life? i just started some courses in school on action script, and while its a pretty nifty language, ive got a feeling flash is being phased out.

that said; how does this affect flash on the desktop?

 

[eagandale4114]

does this mean learning flash action script is nearing its end of life? i just started some courses in school on action script, and while its a pretty nifty language, ive got a feeling flash is being phased out.

that said; how does this affect flash on the desktop?

For mobile devices it defunct. For desktops/laptops it still lives.

 

[iindigo]

does this mean learning flash action script is nearing its end of life? i just started some courses in school on action script, and while its a pretty nifty language, ive got a feeling flash is being phased out.

that said; how does this affect flash on the desktop?

I'm no expert when it comes to flash, but I think most Actionscript programmers are going to find their futures in programming Adobe AIR apps rather than internet content. Flash still lives on in desktop web browsers, but its popularity is falling rapidly.

 

[thewitt]

does this mean learning flash action script is nearing its end of life? i just started some courses in school on action script, and while its a pretty nifty language, ive got a feeling flash is being phased out.

that said; how does this affect flash on the desktop?

You would be foolish learning Flash at this time. Might as well study COBOL

 

[Mattsasa]

Flash is dead!!!!!!

This is a good day for consumers world wide!!!!

Rejoice!

 

[rosschang]

Am not a typical fanboy person but personally I hate flash, especially advertisement flash and flash menus.

On my desktop, my firefox flash plugin is permanently disable. Only when I need to watch a video that is not available in HTML5 format that I will temporary enable it.

On iphone, I practically don't give a damn abt flash...

 

[3N16MA]

Steve once again shows how much of a visionary he was.

 

[grosssa]

does this mean learning flash action script is nearing its end of life? i just started some courses in school on action script, and while its a pretty nifty language, ive got a feeling flash is being phased out.

that said; how does this affect flash on the desktop?

The truth is, with flash being unsupported on future mobile devices and with mobile phones/tablets getting a large scale market penetration in the next years, website creators will be forced some day to skip from flash to HTML5 to reach a wider user base. So in the end, denying hope for flash on mobile devices and concentrating on HTML5 means: Flash is dead on mobile devices and will soon be on its dying gasp on desktops.

Even youtube offers a growing number of their videos optionally in HTML5.

To be sure, try to get a HTML5 course.

 

[Porco]

I have never been very bothered not having flash on iOS but ironically the bad thing about this (for me at least) is that it means there will be more unwanted ads that will soon work on iOS Safari...

 

[djrod]

does this mean learning flash action script is nearing its end of life? i just started some courses in school on action script, and while its a pretty nifty language, ive got a feeling flash is being phased out.

that said; how does this affect flash on the desktop?

Web developer here, learning flash today is a waste of time, in our community almost everybody ignores flash

 

[Rodimus Prime]

does this mean learning flash action script is nearing its end of life? i just started some courses in school on action script, and while its a pretty nifty language, ive got a feeling flash is being phased out.

that said; how does this affect flash on the desktop?

I would say that it is not something really big worth learning. Actoin script will be used for things like Air and products were they are helping generated apps and what not.

For web site developing I do not think it is high on the list of things to learn. HTML5 and javascript would be much better.

 

[djrod]

I have never been very bothered not having flash on iOS but ironically the bad thing about this (for me at least) is that it means there will be more unwanted ads that will soon work on iOS Safari...

They are already here, no flash support? Here is a gif for you!

 

[b0r3dguy]

Good riddance...

Naaa naaa naaa naaaa, naa naaa naa naaa...hey, heyyy....GOODBYE! (Flash)

 

[pmcdunnough]

Great purchase their Adobe. That 4+ Billion for Macromedia sure is working out.

Apple buys NeXT for $463 Million and turns a dead relic into the juggernaut it is now, all in just over 14 years.

In many ways it was really NeXT that took over Apple.

philip

 

[Bernard SG]

Steve once again shows how much of a visionary he was.

And companies like Adobe once again show their total absence of vision. No wonder Apple rules the field.

 

[Benjamins]

oh well one less bullet point

 

[Mord]

Apple killed flash.

Adobe killed flash, by allowing it to be such bloatware.

Apple just refused to swallow their **** and I for one believe the internet is a better place for it.

 

[Benjamins]

does this mean learning flash action script is nearing its end of life? i just started some courses in school on action script, and while its a pretty nifty language, ive got a feeling flash is being phased out.

that said; how does this affect flash on the desktop?

What kind of school would teach their students actionscript... I hope you are not going to school at devry.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

Im sure macromedia saw their work flash before their eyes. This will create shockwaves. Many android adverts are going to become full of air.

*ROTFLMAO*

That's great. Just great!

 

[carmenodie]

Had the iPhone since the 3Gs dropped a few years ago and I have never missed flash.

 

[unsignedbyte]

And all fanboys screaming... predicting html5 replaces flash and never wrote a single line of code. weird.
I can't understand why's this a good news to celebrate. You couldn't run flash on the ios devices, so this doesn't effects you in any way.

Steve once again shows how much of a visionary he was.

such an embarrassing statement

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

Remember those nails I keep mentioning?? Yeah...one more nail...this time to the heart!

Adobe has a heart?