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Nobody likes seeing the flashing/red “1%” icon on their phone’s display. Such things alert of impending death — death of communication, information and pretty much our modern way of life. We have modern creature comforts, though. Things like portable battery chargers help lessen the blow. Similarly, nobody likes being in a situation where they need to copy/store some digital files and don’t have internet access to email themselves the files in...
Adobe may be throwing in the towel on mobile Flash but that doesn’t mean 3rd party manufacturers have to. And while we thought it would be at least a few days before we saw any “save Flash” proponents come out of hiding, RIM has gone and proven us wrong. In a statement to AllThingsD after Adobe’s official announcement earlier today, RIM re-iterated their commitment to Flash (and HTML5) moving forward: “As an Adobe source code licensee, we...
Early this morning (for humans in the Eastern time zone at least) it was revealed that Adobe was to soon announce the death of Flash for mobile devices, with the company move to fully support HTML5 moving forward. As mentioned before, Adobe is shifting Flash for mobile browsers to HTML5, though has stated that they will still help developers package Flash apps for Adobe AIR for distribution in multiple app stores. 3rd party companies may continue to further develop Adobe...
Mobile Flash has long been herald as the software Jesus of the modern smartphone era. For if our phones can display the “real” web just as our desktop machines do, we have won. What exactly have we won? Atrocious battery life, stuttery scrolling, and an all-around terrible experience. Ok. We’ll be honest and admit we’ve had one or two decent mobile Flash encounters over the last year. Keyword: “decent”. But none of that really matters...
