Danny Winokur, VP and GM, interactive development at Adobe has acknowledged on the company blog that support for Flash Player Mobile is dead.
It looks like Adobe will be putting their efforts into HTML 5 instead. Isn't this what Steve Jobs advised them to do back when Apple dropped Flash out of iOS? Adobe threw a tantrum but it appears that Steve was right.
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. We will of course continue to provide critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations. We will also allow our source code licensees to continue working on and release their own implementations.
It looks like Adobe will be putting their efforts into HTML 5 instead. Isn't this what Steve Jobs advised them to do back when Apple dropped Flash out of iOS? Adobe threw a tantrum but it appears that Steve was right.
