It has been known for a while that Flash Player will no longer be supported in mobile devices, and the blame is being squarely laid at Apple’s door.
Mike Chambers, a lead product manager for Flash, said that Apple’s refusal to adopt the player in its mobile OS was the reason Flash started to loose traction.
This one should be pretty apparent, but given the fragmentation of the mobile market, and the fact that one of the leading mobile platforms (Apple’s iOS) was not going to allow the Flash Player in the browser, the Flash Player was not on track to reach anywhere near the ubiquity of the Flash Player on desktops…” he wrote on his personal website.
He also added that there was nothing that Adobe could have done to secure the inclusion of iOS. “Just to be very clear on this. No matter what we did, the Flash Player was not going to be available on Apple’s iOS anytime in the foreseeable future.”
With Apple deciding against the use if Flash, and the “strong support for HTML5 across modern devices” seemed to mark the end for Flash. “Among other things, Chambers cited the use of apps instead of browsers for media consumption and the complexity of the mobile market as further reasons for Adobe’s decision,” Engadget wrote.
Charlie Fripp – Consumer Tech editor
