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 ...

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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Can You Get Flash Without Adobe? Meet DivX Plus Web Player

DivX Plus Web Player is the first alternative to Adobe's Flash Player. It promises better performance, battery life, and video quality, all in one shot. If Flash content brings your computer to its knees, read on to find out if DivX is the answer.

A while back, Steve Jobs posted six reasons why Apple wouldn't support Adobe's Flash-based products on the iPad and iPhone. Those reasons ranged from the software's openness to the fact that it's from a third-party to its effect on battery life. Also listed is the performance of mobile devices playing back Flash-based content. We already spent a lot of time digging into the product's effect on system resources in Adobe Flash: A Look At Browsers, Codecs, And System Performance. If Flash can torpedo the performance of a desktop PC (and it can; we've seen it), just imagine what it could do to a smartphone.

Now, no one is debating the merits of streaming video. Apple simply believes the problem lies in video delivery. That's why it is promoting a new standard known as HTML5 for its mobile devices. However, Apple's overwhelming popularity is one of the factors preventing more widespread adoption. Most Web sites only enable HTML5 content when they detect the iOS user agent. So, if you're cruising the Internet on a PC, HTML5 compliance might not be as relevant right now. That leaves us with a big question mark over the desktop systems (or laptops or netbooks) that still struggle with Flash-based content.

This is where DivX steps in. The company is sidestepping a format war altogether by providing a player that supports HTML5 and Flash-encoded video.  For a long time, Adobe's Flash Player was the only game in town able to play back Flash video. But that's in the past. DivX isn't out to trash Flash, but it is out to prove that it can deliver better performance, battery life, and image quality.

How important is Flash, really? If you enjoy following news sites like CNN, you generally have to install Flash to access all of the content. ComScore estimates that roughly 75% of all online video is Flash-based. For better or for worse, Adobe's Flash format is a fact of today's Web surfing experience. Clearly, DivX has a tall order to fill. Let's see how its solution stacks up.

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