
Adobe product manager Mike Chambers explained on his personal blog to further elaborate on why the company was going to shift focus from Flash to HTML5. With Apple consuming much of the mobile market, Chambers makes it seem as if the company really didn’t have a choice. Chambers said:
This one should be pretty apparent, but given the fragmentation of the mobile market, and the fact that one of the leading mobile platforms (Apple’s iOS) was not going to allow the Flash Player in the browser, the Flash Player was not on track to reach anywhere near the ubiquity of the Flash Player on desktops.
Just to be very clear on this: No matter what we did, the Flash Player was not going to be available on Apple’s iOS anytime in the foreseeable future.
How do you think Adobe abandoning Flash will affect the industry? How will it affect Android?
Source: Mike Chambers via Android and Me



