Adobe Pulls The Plug On Flash

It's a well know fact among those in the tech industry that Apple has never been a big fan of Flash. When I switched over to an iPhone 4, many of my friends laughed and kept asking me how I like my Flash, then giggled like it was the greatest “gotcha” ever.

The thing is, I honestly don't miss it. My phone works fine and I haven't had any situation where I wished my phone was capable of running Flash.

Steve Jobs refused to have Flash running on iPods, iPhone or iPads. He called Flash “a spaghetti-ball piece of technology that has lousy performance and really bad security problems.”

Jobs isn't alone. Even Google has been showing very lukewarm support for Flash on the Android platform. In fact, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has said publicly that HTML 5 will become the platform of the future – for both computers and mobile devices.

Even though Adobe's Flash has some fans, even the company itself is uncertain about Flash's future. Last week, Adobe announced that it will no longer develop its Flash Player to work with new mobile devices. The last release of Flash Player will be the recent Flash Player 11.1 for Android and Blackberry.

It looks as though this decision to pull the player is part of a broader restructuring goal of Adobe's. They recently announced that they will be cutting 750 jobs. Which is bad new for those workers. I find it interesting that after years of debate, some of them heated, about the benefits of Flash Player, Adobe had to wait until Steve Jobs was not around anymore to admit that he was right.

What do you think about this news? Do you like Adobe Flash Player? What do you think about HTML 5? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

By Melissa Kennedy- Melissa is a 9 year blog veteran and a freelance writer for TechCareersBlog and Nexxt. Along with helping others find the job of their dreams, she enjoys computer geekery, raising a teenager, supporting her local library, writing about herself in the third person and working on her next novel.