In April 2010, Apple's then CEO Steve Jobs stated that Adobe flash is no match with the upcoming web technologies and it is not at all suitable for touch screen based high end smartphones. He even ranted about Adobe Flash on Apple's website blaming it for major technical drawbacks and declared that iPhone and iPad will never have support Adobe Flash because new open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices.
We all are well aware of Flash, the very popular middle-ware solution which enables graphical animations and even games on web as well as mobile platforms. But now, identifying the caliber of latest web technologies, specially HTML 5, Adobe has planned to step down and abandon its one of the major product. Its nothing to be sad about as the new technology to be used is not only light-weight but widely supported and more efficient. Getting rid of this 15-year-old technology to instead embrace a universal standard for displaying rich media on the Web is definitely a bold move from Adobe. And this will also be a great news for Apple iPhones and iPad users who have not been able to view media coded for Flash on their mobile devices. Something which the icon Steve Jobs suggested Adobe one and half year back is going to be executed by the company now.
Adobe will abandon the flash application and will no more develop the same for smartphone platform whereas it will continue the support for Android platform.
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