Adobe has today stopped offering its popular Flash online interactivity software — which is used to access many online video clips and games — for new Google Android mobile device users, the BBC reports.
Users who already had Flash installed on their Android smartphones and tablets can still use Flash, but users who don’t have it can no longer install it and it won’t work with Android’s latest version, 4.1 Jelly Bean. Adobe had warned about the change in late June. The move appears to be vindication for the late Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and two-time CEO, who blasted the capabilities of Adobe Flash on mobile devices in a rare public post on Apple’s website in 2010, defending Apple’s decision not to support it on the iPhone and iPad.
Instead, both Apple and now Adobe appear to be concentrating on HTML5, a new version of the common HTML markup programming langauge that incorporates animation and interactivity into websites. Flash is currently in use by 23 percent of websites, according to third-party tracking figures.
