If you're like many, you've probably been holding out and biding your time until someone - Apple, Android, Blackberry - anyone releases a mobile device with a browser capable of running Flash. But in an abrupt turnaround, Adobe announced that it will cease developing its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers.
Bummer, right?
However, Adobe wouldn't just give up mobile Flash development without good reason. Adobe is simply signaling that, as Steve Jobs predicted, the end of the Flash era on the web is coming soon. "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," says the announcement Adobe released on Tuesday. Many in the computing industry, including Apple, have denounced the platform as fundamentally unstable on mobile browsers, and an intense battery drain. In effect, Flash's drawbacks outweigh the benefits on mobile devices.
Instead, they will now focus on alternative application packaging programs and the HTML5 protocol.
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