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Steve Jobs’ final victory?

Adobe announced yesterday that they are to cease their mobile flash plugin browser.

From ZDNet:

the e-mail briefing to Adobe’s partners has been summed up as follows:

• Adobe is Stopping development on Flash Player for browsers on mobile.

Adobe is now focusing their development efforts on:

• Applications for mobile
• Expressive content on the desktop (in and out of browser)
• Increasing their investments in HTML5 in general

This is an extremely important development, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, if anyone doubted Apple’s power over the mobile market, look no further. All Android handsets are Flash compatible, it was only Apple that refused to use it on their iOS devices. A few years after Apple made that decision – a decision that, at the time, seemed stunningly ignorant on Apple’s part – Adobe have finally capitulated and ceased development on their Flash browser. Not only that, they are going to follow Apple’s long held line that HTML5 is the only way forward for the mobile realm.

The second point follows on from the above. With the Flash mobile browser now confirmed to be dead, and with the ever increasing amount of online time being logged through mobile devices including phones and tablets, the way now seems clear for HTML5 to really take off as the sole multimedia experience online. The impact will not be felt anywhere near as much on iOS as it will on Android, but it is a huge development for the future of mobile browsing, whichever platform a user is on.

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• Dated: November 9, 2011