Adobe gives up Flash for mobiles!

A wave of panic he blows at Adobe? The publisher that it refocuses its efforts on the applications and for mobile HTML5, leaving the Flash ...


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A first information coming straight from Adobe announced an internal restructuring plan with a wave of departures for 750 full-time positions. This plan also indicated that the company will continue developing its Creative software suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)., Major pillar of society, and will offer better support for HTML5 in Dreamweaver. In addition, Adobe announced two new applications (Edge and PhoneGap), acquired by the acquisition of the company Nitobe, already available in beta version in the colors from Adobe. All this in order to realign its markets and set up two units, one dedicated to the media and the other digital marketing.


The abandonment of mobile Flash is a necessity "

But the most interesting information is probably the announcement of a detachment of mobile Flash. Sources close to the publisher of San Jose, the abandonment of Flash mobile is a need to focus on improving the porting of applications from Adobe AIR platforms to online gaming. To reassure trading partners (and scholarship), Adobe announced that the companies with the source code for Flash Mobile will continue to develop and implement their own solutions. Knowing that Adobe will also continue to support Android system (as well as RIM BlackBerry PlayBook for the tablet) to provide bug fixes or critical updates security if necessary.

The new mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), and the new mobile operating systems, should not receive the benefit of the Flash application development with Adobe AIR Native and HTML5. The reasons for this decision are quite fuzzy, as it is remembered that Adobe had come into conflict with Apple that would not support the Flash iOS moving its products, or Microsoft, which had also turned back. We can therefore analyze it as an admission of failure on the part of Adobe, which makes it clearly so that the performance of Flash on mobile devices are criticized and the fragmentation of the park Android condemns most improvements and portages.

Even so, HTML5 is still far from being standardized Web as may be the Flash for multimedia applications or sites enriched. But if the terminals are all moving towards a system made of native applications and Web Apps in HTML5, there is no doubt that developers will follow the trend to quickly adapt their sites and services to market. Android developers who are already starting to turn to alternative solutions ...

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