"Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. "We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. "Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe Air for all the major app stores," Adobe said in the statement. It is not clear how many of those include a Flash plugin in the browser.Īt the start of 2011, around 20m devices had Flash in the browser, Adobe said, and it expected that by the end of this year the total would be 200m.
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More recently Larry Page, chief executive of Google, said that a total of 190m Android devices have been activated.
There are no clear figures for how many are now in use. Its quality is irrelevant if it's not allowed to run, and if it's not allowed to run, then Adobe will have to find different ways to meet customers' needs."Īround 250m iOS (iPhone, iPod Touches and iPad) devices have been sold since 2007. John Nack, a principal product manager at Adobe, commented on his personal blog (which does not necessarily reflect Adobe views) that: "Adobe saying that Flash on mobile isn't the best path forward Adobe conceding that Flash on mobile (or elsewhere) is bad technology.
Apple, which in the third quarter captured 5% of the world market, does not include Flash in its computers by default. Security vulnerabilities in Flash on the desktop have been repeatedly exploited to infect PCs in the past 18 months, while Microsoft has also said that the default browser in its forthcoming Windows 8 system, expected at the end of 2012, will not include the Flash plugin by default. The decision also raises a question mark over the future of Flash on desktop PCs.
The existing plugins for the Android and BlackBerry platforms will be given bug fixes and security updates, the company said in a statement first revealed by ZDNet.
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