Adobe, A-B-O-U-T face! Flash is dropped for mobiles
Adobe has handed Apple's Steve Jobs a belated victory with its announcement today that it is stopping development of its Flash player software for mobile devices .Instead it will focus its efforts on HTML 5.
About face for Adobe
Jobs had long insisted that that Flash media streaming technology wasn't suitable for low-power mobile devices.
Adobe will, however, continue to provide bug fixes and security updates and help app developers. Flash will also go ahead in other areas such as advanced gaming and premium video for PCs.
In a blog post, Adobe said, "We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook"
The Wall Street Journal said the decision was an about face for Adobe, "which has long touted the benefits of Flash over HTML5."
In its blog post, Adobe said ,"HTML is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms."