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Adobe Discontinues Development of Flash Player on Mobile Devices
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I've seen the argument about flash as a games development platform. The difference is that for running flash in the browser, Adobe had a unique position, but for native game development there are already lot's of mature frameworks available that is aimed directly at games.
I've never missed flash on any of my iOS devices. So it's good they focus on HTML 5 and try to move it forward.
Really? Aren't there more Android devices and widening the gap? It was a dead tech and the were using smoke and mirrors until they had a new strategy
The Apple haters are the ones that made a big deal out of it, forcing Adobe to comment and Apple to respond. Their stock would have tanked if investors knew their format was dead.
really? seriously? because all companies say 'discontinued' when they mean, 'regrouping to think it out.'
And they said Steve had a reality distortion field.
Flash. Mobile. Discontinued.
but that's good
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ignorant is a big word to toss around, would help to have your own facts correct.
Apple fought adobe's common platform environment for aps which included flash, true.
But they did not support, include, however you want to say 'not going to happen' flash in browsers. It's effectively the same thing.
No flash on IOS. Flash support for mobile devices discontinued (though struggling on with old versions now).
They'll be blocked the same way they are now. The ads aren't kept on the website, they come from an ad domain.
As stubborn as Steve Jobs seems at times, he is always right on the money!
No. He made a lot of good decisions - but he also made several bad ones. Let's not go overboard.
Actually - no. HTML5 can't do a lot of what Flash can and right now - there's no standards across browsers so it's not quite there "yet" - but here's hoping that cross-browser implementations work sooner rather than later
One fact : the iPhone was released with no app store and no flash...
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Good designers adapt the CSS, bad designers creates separated website versions
Not my experience at all. Shopping for cars recently, I found the manufacturer mobile versions to contain much less content than the actual site. It's not just a CSS theme at all.
Same for Macrumors' mobile forum, it's not just a CSS theme.
People are really making mobile versions that are separate from the actual site and even serving it from a different sub-domain usually (m.domain.com instead of www.domain.com).
No, we're using it as an example of bad design that needs to stop being the trend.
Steve Jobs in 2007 told us he was bringing the full desktop browsing experience to a mobile device. In 2011, developers insist on shoving down mobile crap to this device. Why ? Stop doing that.
That's the concept behind HTML/CSS in the first place. Write to the standard, and the browsers will simply ignore and not render what they don't understand.
Of course, sometimes it causes "breakage" hence why some adjustments need to be made. Usually though, you can get away with only 1 or 2 different CSS files.
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Uh ? You mean writing an XML parser ? Because writing XML is not programming, XML is a markup language, not a programming language.
I always have hated Silverlight.
Probably time for Bungie.net to stop using Silverlight for rendered videos.
This is the title of your article:
"Adobe Discontinues Development of Flash Player on Mobile Devices"
Would it have been more correct if it had read: Adobe Discontinues Development of Flash Player on Apple's Mobile Devices?
"Adobe Discontinues Development of Flash Player on Mobile Devices"
Would it have been more correct if it had read: Adobe Discontinues Development of Flash Player on Apple's Mobile Devices?
So it is a good thing because iPhone users have had a worse experience for the last 3 years due to the lack of Flash?
Im not a coder but work with many over the years. Just the bs between AS2 and AS3 is enough of a head-ache for coders to date. Cant imagine what their going through after this news
i bet the flash people are regretting writing a photo editing app and movie app for the first iMac now. Hahaha adobe
For all of Flash's problems (Flash is very good for many things), at least Adobe is good at adapting to the times. They are a well-run company that is not so intent on promoting a product that they drive themselves into the ground.
I guess Uncle Walt was right!
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You mean the same Walt Mossberg who, when asked why the brand new iPhone was missing support for something as common on the Internet as Flash, said it was coming soon?
I'm not a big Flash fan, but I'm glad every single day that on my Android devices I can see Flash content whenever *I* wish. It means I don't have to skip websites just because my browser cannot view all the content. Such should be my decision, not that of somebody else.
One fact - the iPhone was at best a feature phone. Apple also encouraged Web Apps and didn't see how an App store could work. He encouraged Web apps to add functionality and offerings to the iPhone which Apple couldn't provide.
So I'm not sure what your "fact" even means. It's pretty irrelevant. The second Apple could monetize apps - they shunned web apps and then went after Adobe as well.
And technology aside - if you read the bio - you'll also note that there's a very good chance it was a personal vendetta as Jobs felt Adobe gave Apple the shaft back when it wouldn't make versions of Photoshop, etc for the Mac after Jobs' relationship with Adobe.
And Steve wasn't exactly the type of guy to let go of things....
No, that would have been less correct. Adobe is discontinuing development of Flash Player on all Mobile Devices. They are switching to standalone apps and HTML5.
