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Adobe Discontinues Development of Flash Player on Mobile Devices

wikus said:
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?
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I do not like flash, but it has had a good run. If this rumor is validated, then the value of it will decrease bit by bit. You'd probably have use for a good understanding of it, but not necessarily for expert level knowledge. If for nothing else for all the projects that will end up migrating from it to some other technology.

Even with HTML 5, I do not believe it replaces the application part of flash, just the movie streaming part. If that is correct, then action script may still have a number of years of mainstream use.
 
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unsignedbyte said:
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.


such an embarrassing statement
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This is good news for all mobile users, including iPhone users. Why? Because as long as Adobe puts out a mobile version of Flash, some content providers will slack and just support it. Now, without Flash on mobile devices and a growing Internet usage of mobile users, content providers will have to adapt, bringing more content to HTML5 and so on, and thus making more content available to iPhone users.
 
Someday we'll look back and laugh that we needed to instal a plugin from Adobe to view the internet.
 
I never really had any problems with it. Unless it was on OS X. Silverlight is still a better performer in all honesty.
 
MathiasMag said:
I do not like flash, but it has had a good run. If this rumor is validated, then the value of it will decrease bit by bit. You'd probably have use for a good understanding of it, but not necessarily for expert level knowledge. If for nothing else for all the projects that will end up migrating from it to some other technology.

Even with HTML 5, I do not believe it replaces the application part of flash, just the movie streaming part. If that is correct, then action script may still have a number of years of mainstream use.
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I'm with you. html 5 will replacing flash in some parts. But especially for browser games flash will still be peoples choice with the new molehill/stage3d which has arrived now.
 
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So what are the Apple haters going to complain about now?
 
1. why hasn't html5 been adopted as the successor to flash? flash is still widely used as the industry standard for multimedia content

an interesting wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML5_and_Flash

2. why can't apple do what amazon is doing, which is server-side flash processing (maybe i'm completely wrong on this, but it's my understanding that this is what whispernet will be used for among other things)
 
unsignedbyte said:
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.


such an embarrassing statement
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i don't even write code and it's my understanding that html5 is also a faulty substitute for media rich content.

there needs to be another option.
 
Yr Blues said:
1. why hasn't html5 been adopted as the successor to flash? flash is still widely used as the industry standard for multimedia content

an interesting wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML5_and_Flash

2. why can't apple do what amazon is doing, which is server-side flash processing (maybe i'm completely wrong on this, but it's my understanding that this is what whispernet will be used for among other things)
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Why would Apple invest in infrastructure to let a proprietary third-party technology run on iOS devices?
You're weird.
 
Jeaz said:
This is good news for all mobile users, including iPhone users. Why? Because as long as Adobe puts out a mobile version of Flash, some content providers will slack and just support it. Now, without Flash on mobile devices and a growing Internet usage of mobile users, content providers will have to adapt, bringing more content to HTML5 and so on, and thus making more content available to iPhone users.
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I think that the success of the ipad (without flash) has pushed almost all serious content providers to use html 5, even if its only a fall-back solution for them.
And really, I like this trend.

But i dont think that this is the reason most ppl cheering here on the end of flash-mobile. They cheer bc steve jobs wanted it this way... which is just simple fanboy behaviour.
 
Didn't Adobe say that Flash was going to be ready "in a few months" when the iPhone was first debuted? It was some sort of short time frame like that. Yeeeeah how'd that work out Adobe.

Hopefully this means that something better comes of it, whether it's HTML5 or a different solution.
 
Bernard SG said:
Why would Apple invest in infrastructure to let a proprietary third-party technology run on iOS devices?
You're weird.
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implying apple doesn't already allow third-party technology to run on ios devices.

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If flash is evil, why does apple allow their macbooks to run it? aren't they also mobile devices?
 
It's been a long time coming, but it's finally arrived. Eventually, the mass migration to HTML5 to cater for the mobile market will inadvertently spill over to the desktop/notebook market. Why would corporations maintain both flash and HTML5 versions of the same content?

This is a sign of things to come :)
 
kiljoy616 said:
Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Adobe bloatware dies. Oh if only Steve was here to gloat. :D
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Maybe they just have waited for Steve to pass away.

As if Apple themselves don't make bloatware, iTunes sux on older Macs, barely usable.

Happy to see Flash disappear on mobiles, now just wait for it to disappear totally.
 
ShiftyPig said:
Didn't Adobe say that Flash was going to be ready "in a few months" when the iPhone was first debuted? It was some sort of short time frame like that. Yeeeeah how'd that work out Adobe.

Hopefully this means that something better comes of it, whether it's HTML5 or a different solution.
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Maybe it was ready, degrading the battery by half and with a 3 fps slide-show performance. Apple said "not good enough" they went to Google and they said

"We'll take it!"
 
jasheeky said:
Apple killed flash.
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Mozilla killed ActiveX. What?

ppc_michael said:
No, the announcement states they'll continue to support the current version for Android.
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With security fixes, yes, not features. So it's EOL'd.

Yr Blues said:
1. why hasn't html5 been adopted as the successor to flash?
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HTML5 is years away from being finalized. If it ever will be.

Mord said:
Adobe killed flash, by allowing it to be such bloatware.
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Nailed it. (sorry) :D:apple:

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Flash on desktops is not going away anytime soon, people. No need to pop the champagne.
 
mdriftmeyer said:
Great purchase their Adobe. That 4+ Billion for Macromedia sure is working out.
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Flash was only a small part of what they got for their money. With Dreamweaver they gained the market leader for web page creation software, and Fireworks had a massive user base for web graphics. Plus all those Freehand users migrated to Illustrator once Adobe killed it.

So the real purpose of buying Macromedia was so Adobe could eliminate their competition in the creative software arena.

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unsignedbyte said:
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.
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It's good news because Flash is a shoddy, bloated, resource-hungry plugin that runs like a dog on Mac/PC as well as mobile devices.

The quicker we can get it off the desktop the better.
 
I find it funny how Steve Jobs saw back in 2007 how Flash sucked on mobile device, and Adobe understood it in 2011. Talking about the lack of vision...
 
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