Adobe Flash on the iOS platform was a hot topic for quite a while. Many handset makers (like samsung or htc) even put the ability to play flash content inside their ads, to differentiate their phones from in their opinion a crippled product like the iPhone. They omitted from these ads the facts about battery and procesor usage when flash is on. Who cares if you can use it for 10 minutes, but you can use flash. Yay! The truth is that even Adobe finally realized, that web wants to be more efficient and less processor heavy – not only for mobile devices. They released their own HTML5 authoring tools, and now in the next step – they’re abandoning the development of flash for mobile platforms completely. That means that in a few years flash in the mobile space will be even more non-existant than it is now. Good!
Funny to see their whining though – saying that it was Apple who killed mobile flash. Well Apple also killed the diskette, and nobody’s complaining about that now. The same fate will meet flash soon enough.
Also don’t get me wrong. I love Adobe Flash app. It’s the best creative vector-drawing editor ever. The tools are perfect for drawing (far easier to use and more fun than illustrator’s). But flash is much better for animation and cartoons, than websites. HTML5 is the future and we’re all ready for it!