Bye, bye mobile Flash, Adobe gives it the axe

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postmortemIA

postmortemIA

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They waited until he died :D
This is stupid. They already made product, spend numerous hours in doing so, and now they are abandoning it.
Maybe they are going to focus on 64-bit flash for windows instead.
 
Deeko

Deeko

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When even Windows 8 tablets won't be supporting it in the metro browser...yea.
 
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alent1234

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postmortemIA said:
They waited until he died :D
This is stupid. They already made product, spend numerous hours in doing so, and now they are abandoning it.
Maybe they are going to focus on 64-bit flash for windows instead.
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i bet they got tired of testing and writing code to account for every possible CPU/GPU combination on android phones

there is still going to be mobile flash, but they are going to let the developers test their code instead

in the end Adobe's business is developer tools. the new versions are made for HTML5. i doubt adobe really cares if people use flash or javascript as long as they buy their tools
 
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Mopetar

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postmortemIA said:
They already made product, spend numerous hours in doing so, and now they are abandoning it.
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They probably realized what a pain the ass it was to maintain and that they weren't making progress anywhere near fast enough.
 
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runawayprisoner

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Now it remains to be seen if publishers will want to convert their contents into something Android and other platforms would understand. The majority of them have a QuickTime or HTML5 source for iOS, but serves only Flash to desktops and anything aside from iOS...
 
ponyo

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Major advantage and feature of Android just went away. I know it's still supported but this is a major win for Apple. The only feature iOS now lacks is voice navigation and once it gets that, I can't think of any other con for me.
 
Red Storm

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ponyo said:
Major advantage and feature of Android just went away. I know it's still supported but this is a major win for Apple. The only feature iOS now lacks is voice navigation and once it gets that, I can't think of any other con for me.
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I can think of many...

But this is a win for all mobile devices, doesn't matter which OS you use.
 
Capt Caveman

Capt Caveman

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ponyo said:
Major advantage and feature of Android just went away. I know it's still supported but this is a major win for Apple. The only feature iOS now lacks is voice navigation and once it gets that, I can't think of any other con for me.
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Voice Navigation? Plenty of apps for that.
 
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dguy6789

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ponyo said:
Major advantage and feature of Android just went away. I know it's still supported but this is a major win for Apple. The only feature iOS now lacks is voice navigation and once it gets that, I can't think of any other con for me.
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I disagree completely. Flash was a very obscure advantage Android had, not even in a top 10(maybe 20 if I thought for a while) list for me. I disabled Flash on every Android device I have had since it came out and have only rarely had an occasion where I needed to enable it to view content I wanted to view.

The only thing that Adobe dropping mobile flash concerns me about is there are some devices that ship with Flash as bloatware that can't be uninstalled without a custom ROM. It's an OCD thing of mine but I don't really like running obsolete or unsupported software.
 
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runawayprisoner

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Red Storm said:
I can think of many...

But this is a win for all mobile devices, doesn't matter which OS you use.
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Most of those you can think of can be fixed via jailbreak... Much the same way as rooting has patches and fixes for certain things on certain phones.

And it's not a win for all mobile devices.

When you look at it from a developer's, or content provider's point of view, this is basically Adobe giving the finger to all of its developers and saying: we don't care anymore. You have as long as you can to migrate your websites and contents to Air before Flash 10 becomes obsolete. And from my experience? That doesn't take longer than 2 years starting from when a new version is released. Flash 9 was obsolete within 1.5 years.

The incentive for having Flash on mobile devices was simply so that they didn't need to go back to the drawing board and write a new native client from the ground up for their websites and contents. In other words, Adobe is forcing everyone to go back to the drawing board and redo everything that they have done for the past decade.

Not bad enough? Many content providers took 4 years... from the day the iPhone was introduced until now, to complete their move to a system that iOS devices could understand and process in-browser. They now have to go back and do that for all other platforms. It's a hell of a lot of work just to display a video. The effort is simply not worth it.

HTML5 is the future? Yeah, it is... when everybody adopts it and follows the same standards. But... they don't.
 
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