Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android

Re:Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android by casca on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @09:06AM (#3566548)

Hats off to Apple. They managed to take a technology that was entrenched as a standard and kill it simply by refusing to support it on their mobile platform.

For years people have been complaining about the lack of IOS flash support, but the true impact has been to hasten the move to HTML5 and to kill a proprietary, bloated, bug-filled technology.

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Re:Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android by tjogin on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @10:51AM (#3566967)

I honestly don't think Apple set out to kill flash. They just chose to not support Flash, like they also don't support a bunch of other browser plugins. All of them, in fact.

Had others not made such a big fuss about it, Apple's mobile devices would simply silently not support Flash. But everybody made such a big stink about it so they had to vocally explain their motivations for not supporting Flash specifically, making Apple some kind of Flash opponent.

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Re:Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android by pornel on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @08:11PM (#3569357)

Apple couldn't make it without help of Adobe.

For years (even after iPhone shipped) Adobe only had "Flash Lite" to offer, and allowed it to lag many versions behind desktop version (e.g. Opera on Wii had trouble when YouTube started dropping support for Flash 7 and Adobe simply didn't have anything more modern available in "Devices SDK").

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Re:Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android by arcdrag on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @12:16PM (#3567370)

Has it been hastened considerably? It has been 3 years now since the controversy began...or centuries in internet time.

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