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(Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
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Author:  forquare1 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:15 am ]
Post subject:  (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
Quote:
According to ZDNet, Adobe is throwing in the towel on Flash for all mobile platforms (Android included), and will encourage developers to use AIR and HTML5 in the future as alternatives to the company's iconic web plugin. This follows hot on the heels of news that Adobe is cutting 750 jobs at its North American and European arms. The announcement regarding Flash is expected to come at a financial analyst meeting tomorrow.
Flash for Android has a storied history, and often served as the cornerstone for arguments that only Android allows mobile users to experience the "full" web on their smartphone and tablet devices. While Adobe will continue providing security updates to the Flash for Android platform, its development as a product will effectively end.
The lackluster performance of Flash in mobile (and, let's face it, any) applications and the increasing hype around HTML5, as well as Adobe's financial circumstances, are likely to blame.
The supposed announcement was leaked to ZDNet, below:
ZDNet wrote:
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates.



Clicky
Author:  l3v1ck [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:08 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
Question: Flash works on Android but not iOS, but what about AIR? Are Apple going to allow it or is "All app stores" just a pipe dream?
Author:  steve74 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
At last, the penny's finally dropped with Adobe - Flash is rubbish on a mobile. In fact, it's just rubbish full stop.
If only they'd admitted this to themselves 2 years ago, then they could have been concentrating on making the desktop version better.
:roll:
Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:26 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
Remember this?

Quote:
A new initiative, called the "Digital Agenda" is come from on high. Well, from the EU's European Commission, anyway. The agenda could force proprietary systems, such as the iPhone, to open up to competitors.
[…]
Daily Tech interprets the move to include Flash.

"(T)he EU may gain the power to force Apple to allow Flash onboard. It may also be able to finally force Apple to allow third-party devices -- like Android smart phones, the Palm Pre, or rival MP3 players - to sync with iTunes."


http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/eu ... oducts.php
Author:  jonbwfc [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:51 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
what will all the device makers whose only sales pitch is 'It's just like the iPhone/iPad, but it does Flash!' do now then?

Jon
Author:  l3v1ck [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:57 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
jonbwfc wrote:
what will all the device makers whose only sales pitch is 'It's just like the iPhone/iPad, but it does Flash!' do now then?

Widgets! I love the widgets on Android. I know iOS 4 didn't have them, does iOS 5?
Unless iOS gets an equivalent, I won't really consider it.
Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
jonbwfc wrote:
what will all the device makers whose only sales pitch is 'It's just like the iPhone/iPad, but it does Flash!' do now then?

Jon


Bitch to the EU that they can’t connect to iTunes.
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
steve74 wrote:
At last, the penny's finally dropped with Adobe - Flash is rubbish on a mobile. In fact, it's just rubbish full stop.
If only they'd admitted this to themselves 2 years ago, then they could have been concentrating on making the desktop version better.
:roll:

Works well enough for me thank you.

On another note the British spelling is "rumour".
Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
Seems to work fine on my WebOS tablet too; 720p video and all those millions of free games.
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
jonbwfc wrote:
what will all the device makers whose only sales pitch is 'It's just like the iPhone/iPad, but it does Flash!' do now then?

Jon

Carry on and say it still can do flash unlike the iPhone/iPad and you can have more choice about where you buy your apps from. In other words nothing has changed yet.
Author:  forquare1 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
jonbwfc wrote:
what will all the device makers whose only sales pitch is 'It's just like the iPhone/iPad, but it does Flash!' do now then?

Jon


It'll still do Flash, but it'll be unsupported apart from major security patches.

Linux_User wrote:
On another note the British spelling is "rumour".


It came pasted with the title.

Flash is like iTunes, IMO. Windows users hate it because it runs so terribly, Mac users don't have this problem. Flash on OS X runs terribly, whereas Windows doesn't seem to have the problem...
iTunes is only a media player that you acknowledge that you'll need if you buy an iPod/iPhone/iPad. Flash is a web experience and there is no other way of viewing Flash files (to my knowledge?).
Author:  HeatherKay [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
I'm no fan of Flash either way, but I do have the current plugin installed on the MacBook Pro.

It used to be a resource hog, slow, crashing all the time, and causing the system to bog down. The current iteration is much less so. It rarely kicks the fans in while viewing video - something the previous versions used to do almost as soon as content appeared (though most of the time I have ClickToFlash blocking content, or switching it to alternative playback schemes).

Perhaps Adobe have finally got Flash Player under control? Just in time for its demise... :lol:
Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
HeatherKay wrote:
Perhaps Adobe have finally got Flash Player under control? Just in time for its demise... :lol:

I have to say the mobile version seems better than the plugin for Firefox... although maybe that's just because my phone is more powerful than my computer :lol:
Author:  jonbwfc [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
At this point, reading the various news reports, there seems no sign that they're abandoning Flash entirely. Flash for the desktop will still be a big thing for them by the looks of things. The only thing that's bought the farm is the mobile device implementation of Flash.

As for carrying on using the Android plug in as it is, that's certainly an option in the short term. However, it seems to me there are two ways Flash could go from here. It could either continue to evolve as a purely desktop technology or it could wither. In the latter case less and less content will be available requiring it so in the end you won't need it. The former option is actually worse, as it's likely that content produced with later version of Flash won't be backwards compatible with the older implementation the Android users are stuck with (if you think that won't happen, try browsing the web on a pc with Flash 9 installed rather than Flash 10) and Android users will be increasingly stuck in the boat with iOS users, only at least iOS users have the certainty that none of it works. Android users will be left to keep trying things and increasingly finding them not working, but sometimes they do. That's no fun.

IMO, it's actually more in Android user's interests at this point for Flash to die entirely. Once it's no longer supported, you really want it gone altogther. Most of the better Android browsers (Dolphin for example) seem to have pretty good HTML5 implementations but I can only see using Flash on the web getting a more and more frustrating experience for Android users in the future.

Flash was the Android's golden egg but it just went past it's sell by date. All it's going to do now is smell a bit stronger every day.

Jon
Author:  jonbwfc [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: (Rumor) Adobe Calling It Quits On Flash For Android And All
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