Flash technology developer begins to fold: Adobe has announced that it will stop developing the Flash plugin designed mobile browsers
Adobe gives up, or at least one hand. The company that invented the flash technology and has developed it - has announced that it will stop developing the Flash plugin designed to browsers mobile devices (cell phones and tablet PCs). Natural current flash Android and BlackBerry will continue to be updated with bug fixes and security updates, but no more will be developed. Instead, Adobe will focus on developments for HTML5 technology, which is considered a future flash successor.
This decision puts the future of flash computers in question. The technology has been criticized for various reasons - energy consumption to security breaches. At the forefront of flash disqualification was the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who refused to allow the use of technology Apple products working on iOS operating system. "Mobile era connected devices with low power consumption, touch interfaces and open web standard" - areas where flash backward "Jobs wrote in a document published on the subject. The fact that users of the iPhone / iPod / iPad (about 250 million phones in the world) can not use flash severely affected the status of this technology, and public relations battle waged against Adobe recently trying to get Apple to change her mind - did not change the situation. In addition, Microsoft recently announced that Flash plugin is not included with the version of browser you reach the operating system Windows 8, come out in 2012 (but can be installed proactively).
Adobe launched last March named Wallaby tool that allows developers to convert Flash files to HTML files 5, thus allowing their work even on platforms that do not support Flash, what looked like a kind of acceptance of the technology's fate. "Adobe says Flash Mobile is not the best route forward, but not claiming this is a bad technology. Quality is not relevant if not impossible for her to run - then Adobe should find other ways to meet customer needs," wrote John Neck personal blog, product manager society, with the news Adobe's current decision
