Adobe is reportedly killing their long standing Flash for mobile devices. The company says that it would like to focus on HTML5 for mobile devices rather than flash, but will provide some support for Flash.
Adobe, the company behind the development of Flash has reportedly moved ahead to kill its development on Mobile devices. The company will move ahead with HTML5 development, for which Steve Jobs always stood for, and thought it would make Mobile experience much smoother than before.
Adobe has finally accepted that Flash is not suitable for mobile devices and tablets and is halting the development. The company would provide limited support for the current version of Flash though, like bug fixes and security updates. Here’s the official statement to the developers from Adobe:
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
I think this is a good move and the company FINALLY realized that Steve was right. This is the kind of impact this man has made with his very limited time to live. The major fallback would be for the Android phone makers. Since they popularized their devices for running flash. So what will they do now without the technology actually existing in it?
If you could remember, there was a head-to-head war between Steve and Adobe. And the company has been striving to prove that he was wrong and Flash would perform better on mobile devices consuming less battery power and resources. But they have now admitted the FACT. So now, the entire web is moving towards HTML5. The next generation technology, that can be named as a Flash Killer.