Flash for Android dies tomorrow. Steve Jobs won.

[onehandle]

Flash for Android dies tomorrow, long live the 'full web experience'

In November of last year, Adobe made a surprising about-face on its popular Flash plugin, announcing that it would stop development of Flash for mobile devices. Tomorrow, Adobe will disable new installs of Flash on Android, effectively cutting it off from the future of the mobile web — despite the company's historical assertion that Flash would enable the "full web experience" on mobile devices. Instead, Adobe surrendered the major mobile battlegrounds and pledged allegiance to HTML5.

Adobe had grand plans for mobile Flash, but the company met a sizable early wall when Apple refused to adopt it. Despite the company's push to get Flash on all platforms with its Open Screen Project, it never solved iOS support under Steve Jobs, who famously fought against Flash in favor of HTML5. Adobe never really had a chance with iOS, but it faltered where it did have a chance — on Android. Despite attempts at marketing and Android integration, Adobe withdrew from Android, shutting it out of roughly 85 percent of the mobile market. And the final nail in Flash's coffin may be from Microsoft, which only plans to offer limited Flash support in Windows 8. As one Adobe project manager said last year, Flash "was not going to achieve the same ubiquity on mobile that it has on the desktop."

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/14/3241727/flash-for-android-dies

[RoccoR5955]

1. This is actually good.

Less places for malware to infect. Android has the highest infection rate.

[limpyhobbler]

2. time to learn html 5 I guess

[hunter]

3. Good. But Steve Job's or Microsoft's visions for HTML5 are equally loathesome.

I won't play in their walled gardens.

What's the point of celebrating the demise of Flash if it's replaced by equally noxious proprietary software?