Flash Player at its end on mobile devices: Adobe decides to stop and suspends the release of new updates.
The end of an era, or perhaps the consequence of the rapid development of the smartphone sector: Flash Player will cease to be further developed.
Adobe’s decision has been officially made, so Flash Player marks its last released version as 11.1.
The rise of HTML5 has likely accelerated this well-considered announcement, so much so that the Adobe staff has explicitly stated they are already looking and developing in this direction.
Many see in this announcement, which has all the flavor of a bitter admission, a “posthumous” victory for Steve Jobs, who had always firmly opposed Flash on iOS, convinced that the disadvantages for Apple users outweighed the benefits of using the application, in terms of performance, security, CPU load, and battery life.
Returning to the present, Adobe’s future in the mobile sector is the same as all useful stores for enriching smartphones with content: HTML5. Furthermore, more resources will be allocated to the development of Adobe Air.
This does not mean that the system will disappear suddenly, if only because many sites implement elements in Flash. Moreover, on the hardware level there are also open issues: RIM’s PlayBook, for example, is largely based on Flash and it would be unrealistic to think of a very rapid phase-out, so much so that RIM itself has hastened to let it be known that updates will continue but “internally”.
The company has indeed acquired an Adobe license that allows it to use the source code of Flash Player, so at least for the foreseeable future, tablet users will continue to receive an updated product.
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