Goggle Killed Off Adobe Flash
Google has now officially booted out Flash from all their services including from Android and Google Play Store. Adobe will disable new installs of Flash on Android, effectively cutting it off from the future of the mobile web.
This outcome has been expected for a while now. Ever since the late Steve Jobs predicted the death of Flash on mobile and now it is finally coming true. Previously, Adobe has announced that it will pull away and will not provide Flash Player support for devices running Android 4.1. Flash plugin will be removed from the Google Play Store by August 2012. The retreat comes five years after the introduction of the iPhone, the device which killed Flash’s mobile ambitions.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen previously took a jab at Apple by saying: “Anyone who wants to design for a multi-platform world is our customer. Apple would like to keep it closed and proprietary. Well, let the games begin.” As a CEO, he failed to see HTML5 will dominate web animation in the future? … and the death of Flash is now here. Shantanu is not applied strategic thinking when he made that comment.
Adobe Buries Flash With Edge
Adobe Systems is offering an early preview version of Adobe Edge, an HTML5 design tool due to the on the way out Adobe Flash. Apple called it. Adobe Flash is a dying elephant. The Edge preview product now is available at the Adobe Labs site.
Edge is a new web development tool from Adobe that makes it easy to create animations and interactive websites with HTML5.
Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day
Adobe patched zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player. The flaw was being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks using a malicious Web page or Flash (SWF) file embedded within a Microsoft Word (DOC) or Excel (XLS) file attachment.
Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier versions for Chrome users) for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris update to Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.27 for Chrome users). Adobe recommends users of Adobe AIR 2.6.19120 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux update to Adobe AIR 2.6.19140. Adobe expects to make available an update for Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for Android no later than the week of April 25, 2011.
iPhone Flash Browser Skyfire Pulled From App Store
Skyfire is a browser app available on the iPhone for $2.99 that can play some Flash-based video. It will detect flash video and convert it to iPhone’s H.264 format before playing it. Therefore you will find the browser very slow in showing the video.
Now you will not able to find the app due heavy download and Skyfire removed it from the App Store.
From Skyfire blog:
Skyfire for iPhone has been received with unbelievable enthusiasm. Despite our best attempts and predictions, the demand far exceeds our initial projections.The user experience was performing well for the first few hours, but as the surge continued, the peak load on our servers and bandwidth caused the video experience to degrade.
Thus we are effectively ‘sold out’ and will temporarily not accept new purchases from the App Store. We are working really hard to increase capacity and will be accepting new purchases from the App Store as soon as we can support it.
Apple Drops Flash On New Macs
Apple will no longer pre-install Adobe Flash on any of their products from now on. The latest MacBook Air does not have Flash player preinstalled.
If you need it, go to Adobe to download the Flash player. It is good to see Apple going down this path as users will soon no longer need Flash once HTML5 becomes standard on all major browser (still waiting for IE9).
Steve Jobs Says I Told You So: Adobe Found Critical Flaw In Flash
Apple has previously posted a memo from Steve Jobs regarding Flash. In a nutshell, the Apple CEO says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps.
Now Adobe finally revealed that there is a critical flaw in Flash. The critical vulnerability could let attackers take control of people’s computers. No official patch to fix the problem yet.
Apparently Google also hates flash. From SFGate: Google, at the end of the day, also hates Flash. Running an all flash environment is SEO death. Flash websites are simply too complicated for Google’s spiders to actually understand. Google sees the internet primarily in text – flash, and other scripts are ignored.
Will we see the end of Flash soon? We think so, just like DOS, floppy disks and cassette tapes.
Apple Steve Jobs Reveals Adobe Cast The First Stone On Flash Fiasco
Apple CEO Steve Jobs now revealed that he did not begin the long-running feud with Adobe over Flash. He only did so when Adobe started to raise the stink.
Steve Jobs said: We didn’t start off to have a war with Flash, or anything else. We just made a technical decision that we weren’t gonna put the energy into getting Flash on our platform. We told Adobe, if you ever have this thing running fast, let us know, which they never did. It wasn’t until we shipped the iPad and it didn’t use Flash that Adobe started to raise a stink about it.
Steve also declared the end of the post PC era with the iPad/tablet overtaking PCs.
Apple has previously posted a memo from Steve Jobs regarding Flash. In a nutshell, the Apple CEO says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps.
Steve said: Flash was created during the PC era—for PCs and mice. The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open Web standards—all areas where Flash falls short. Adobe should focus more on creating tools for the future and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Read the full memo after the jump:
Adobe Heart Apple Ad Campaign – A Poor Attempt At Getting Support For Flash
Adobe responds to Steve Job’s dislike of Flash with an ad campaign titled “Adobe Love Apple”. It started off nice but end with a stab at Apple with taking away freedom. Let’s face it Adobe, we know you are feeling the heat because they know Flash will soon be replaced by the more future proven HTML 5. And Steve Jobs knows that too. So please give up on Flash!
Scribd Ditched Flash For HTML 5
Scribd, a service for hosting and sharing documents online, has started moving away from Flash and converting all documents to HTML 5 format. We can see the trend where companies building web applications are moving away from Flash such as YouTube, Google and Apple.
Adobe Behind Apple Antitrust Complaints?
Officials at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are thinking if they will probe Apple new policy which prevents developers Adobe using Flash to create iPhone and iPad apps. Did Adobe tip the Feds off? Most likely since Apple rejected their Flash cross-compiler for iPhone.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps. Why would you want watered down apps to appear on your device?
Steve said: Flash was created during the PC era—for PCs and mice. The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open Web standards—all areas where Flash falls short. Adobe should focus more on creating tools for the future and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
What he said is true and please don’t change the SDK agreement and keep giving us quality apps.
