Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers 485
larry bagina writes "Jason Perlow of ZDNet is reporting that Adobe will stop developing Flash for mobile browsers and focus on AIR and HTML5 tools. I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if 750 voices screamed out in terror and were laid off. But that noise was overshadowed by everybody else celebrating."
Re:The Whole Web (Score:5, Informative)
Multiple source files (Score:4, Informative)
Yes, it does [wikipedia.org]! Hurray! - Dr. Zoidberg
Laid off (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Laid off (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The Whole Web (Score:5, Informative)
Adobe never enabled it for Flash for some reason which I can't understand, but you can force it (and many other large apps) to SD by using an ADB command [myhtcdesire.com]. Not all apps work from SD, but Flash works perfectly.
Leaving this option set can cause problems since you can't or don't want some apps moved to SD, so I just enable it temporarily when I have an app to move, then disable it again after by setting the option back to "0". Once the app is forced to SD it will stay there when it's updated in the future.
Re:One closed platform down! (Score:3, Informative)
But Android users don't buy apps....
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-android-puny/ [techcrunch.com]
They don't surf the web
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20128243-264/android-browser-bumps-opera-for-no-2-spot/?tag=mncol;txt [cnet.com]
And even 2/3rd's of Google's mobile traffic comes from iOS devices....
http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/two-thirds-of-googles-mobile-search-traffic-comes-from-ios-devices-18718/ [mobilemarketingwatch.com]
Re:At last! (Score:2, Informative)
It's not "astroturfing" when it's using actual, published numbers.
Apple is one of the few PC vendors growing their marketshare at the moment in hardware (and this is *not* including iOS devices - those are measured separately). It's not a torrent, but it is measurable, non-negligable, year-on-year growth for the past few years.
Just because you personally don't know anyone who bought one doesn't make anything that contradicts your single-data-point-anecdotal opinion automatically an astroturf attempt.
But then, you won't believe me because I'm contradicting you. First google hit though:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/may/24/apple-sales-growth-pc-market [guardian.co.uk]