With the sentencing to death of mobile Flash, Adobe admitted it didn’t deserve existence. HTML5 is simply better. The creator of a lucrative, popular thing said that lucrative, popular thing was over. In fact, the creator was directly ending its creation. This doesn’t happen very often! So it should have been a hell of a klaxon to the rest of the world: MOBILE FLASH IS DONE.
But then there’s RIM, whose PlayBook tablet, with so many missing features it might as well be a manilla envelope filled with nickels, has interpreted Adobe’s surrender in a different manner: if Adobe says mobile Flash is dead, let’s keep it alive! Against all conventional wisdom and technological evidence. So, why are they doing it, officially?
“RIM remains committed to delivering an uncompromised Web browsing experience to our customers, including native support for Adobe Flash Player on our BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.”
That’s the same web Adobe admitted following about: “HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” Or is RIM operating in some alternate web, where even if BBMs did work, you still wouldn’t be able to access them natively on your PlayBook because the coders are busy exhuming the dead corpse of phone Flash? [AllThingsD]
Ozoneocean
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 4:56 PMWhat moron write this? You imbecile Sam Biddle- The purpose of having Flash on a tablet is so you get a FULL web experience, not just a simplified, nurtured “mobile” one.
You idiot.
Simon Reidy
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 3:43 PMHello Mr Miss-The-Point! Now that flash is being killed off by Adobe themselves, how long do you think this FULL web experience will be flash driven? If Adobe are ceasing development, any website worth it’s weight in pixels, will upgrade to newer standards. I.e. HTML5.
RIM, as per usual, are desperate to badge their shitty devices as delivering a full web experience, so that they can claim their devices do something the competition doesn’t. However the fact is that just like any other mobile device, the PlayBook runs flash like crap, and it completely kills the battery.
If you are so desperate to have your FULL web experience, use a laptop/desktop like everyone else. Unless you’re some kind of mad porn addict, what exactly of value are you missing out on from your mobile device?
Give it 5 years and the only flash you’ll see on the net will be archived porn videos no one has bothered converting, and browser based games (which typically require keyboard input and don’t work properly on a phone or tablet anyway).
Flash has always sucked on mobile, and Adobe are quite right to cut their losses and pull the plug. RIM on the other hand will continue to live in their fantasy world as they always have, while the company continues to rapidly lose market share.