Flash in the pan
Newest version of Android, no flash support. It’s on it’s way out.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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July 2nd, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Adobe announced that Flash (as a standalone thing, rather than pseudo-compiled AIR apps) was dead on mobile last November, so no surprise there.
Ding, dong, the witch is dead.
July 2nd, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Flash is really awful for mobile devices. Because it’s a CPU hog, it’s a battery hog. I even block Flash on my Mac Book, because enough instances running cuts the battery life substantially even on a laptop.
July 2nd, 2012 at 3:46 pm
So what will all those people do who insisted on buying a mobile device that runs Flash?
July 3rd, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Someone will port an open source flash player and offer it in the android market.
July 3rd, 2012 at 11:52 pm
My XOOM played Amazon streaming video beautifully when it was running various versions of honeycomb.
After upgrading to ICS it became an unusable, stuttering, laggy mess trying to play flash based video. Turns out that, even for existing devices that had been optimized, the ICS version of Flash player disabled hardware acceleration, forcing video to run purely on the CPU itself. Bad enough that I rolled back to honeycomb, for now, anyway.
July 5th, 2012 at 5:39 am
HTML5 is what everyone is going to be (or already is) using for their content. Many sites are already switching to HTML5 video over Flash. It was just a matter of browsers supporting the key HTML5 features. Web developers will use HTML5 on their mobile sites, and Flash on their desktop sites. Any web developer who’s been paying attention has known this for a few years now.
As for Apple’s decision … it cut both ways. Flash wasn’t designed for mobile, but the reality was that most content on-line used it at the time. It meant Apple devices would not have access to all online content, at least in the short run. But let’s face it–nearly all that content was video, and Flash is overkill for video playing. With many sites converting to HTML5 video, it’s no longer an issue.