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"In November of last year, Adobe made a surprising about-face on its popular Flash plugin, announcing that it would stop development of Flash for mobile devices. Today, Adobe will disable new installs of Flash on Android, effectively cutting it off from the future of the mobile web — despite the company’s historical assertion that Flash would enable the “full web experience” on mobile devices. Instead, Adobe surrendered the major mobile battlegrounds and pledged allegiance to HTML5."

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A:  Steve Jobs was right.

D:  What will the Fandroids hold over people’s heads now?  Flash for mobile was such a big deal to them, even though it always worked like shit (Walt Mossberg famously said it to an Adobe executive’s face), so it’ll be interesting to see them all backtrack and point out how insignificant Flash is in the long run on a mobile device.

Flash for Android dies today, long live the ‘full web experience’ | The Verge

15 August 2012 ·

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