Adobe kills flash for mobile devices

[Tom]

"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."

Fingers crossed they kill the desktop variant next.

 

[Krispwee]

Finally. Ran like a back of s**t on phones anyway. Hopefully this will mean an end to Android owners wanking on about it.

 

[jonzz]

Thank f**k

 

[sn00p]

Blackberry Playbook

Runs Android Applic.....oh wait. Feature "late"
Runs Flash....oh wait. Feature deprecated.
Runs Email....oh wait. Feature "late".
Runs BBM....oh wait. Feature "late".

Thank different. Think Blackberry.

 

[olliewebbuk]

You got the source of this Tom? Just so I can message my Android bumming pals and rub their faces in it.

 

[Tom]

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/category/developers

 

[PinkoCommie]

They're killing it because apparently they have to tweak it for every different ARM device, unfortunatly this means they have to tweak it for pretty much every single different handset, they're not killing off the desktop variant though.

 

[olliewebbuk]

they're not killing off the desktop variant though.

Obviously...

It's a massive shame they aren't though.

 

[AK]

Jobs FTW.

 

[olliewebbuk]

True. He knew the score, flash on mobile devices is a joke.

 

[Keydogg]

Tom - You will have more knowledge on this than me; my sensation views flash websites exactly as my computer does, will this still affect me? If so, gutted!

 

[Tom]

No. Unless its a type of flash that requires a higher player than 11.

 

[Keydogg]

Excellent, cheers mate!

 

[wozzaa]

Nothing really wrong with the desktop variant apart from under OSX. Which has notoriously slow flash performance, hence why it was never supported on the iPhone and Jobs always moaned about it.

Under windows it is a very different story and it is much much faster on the same hardware. Basically it is just broken on the Apple platform.

Flash is here to stay for a long time yet.

 

[olliewebbuk]

Nothing really wrong with the desktop variant apart from under OSX.

Wrong. It is a massive security hole in the already Swiss-cheese like Windows. It also brings it own security holes to OS X and Linux.