Android Jelly Bean to no longer support Flash

Why are so many companies ditching flash support now? :(

Adobe dropped support for flash on phones, because they couldn't get a license agreement to implement support for the Iphone. HTML5 is going to become the new standard. HTML5 also uses less bandwidth than flash.

bring on html5!

Because Flash is inefficient and bloated, which is especially not good for battery-operated devices.

Companies need to start trying hard to get html5 pushed out the door now, flash and adobe are just inconsistent always slow with their updates and always have holes and flaws in them and its glitchy and power hungry. I switched over to jobs side now, time for a change.

Remember when all the anti-iPhone people were like "Android is better because it can run Flash"?

it's not a problem with android.. it's a problem with adobe and their bloatware and restrictive licenses..

flash exists and is fine on android 4.1 ice cream sandwich, but of course thats far more "community" oriented.. the annoying thing is swapping "internal" and "external" sd locations in the specs between 3.x and 4.x .. so.. everybody get rooting..

I welcome the end of flash too.. horrid proprietary garbage.. death to proprietary software on websites!!!

Android's support of Flash was "superior", simply because there were large portions of the net that were otherwise inaccessible, or at least unusable. That has not, in fact, changed yet, although there is some progress.

Simply declaring something "obsolete", point of fact, doesn't make it de facto true, no matter how essentially true it is. Is anybody actually imagining companies, in general, as being somehow quick or flexible, when adopting this change..? I'd say the current state of Flash vs. HTML5 on the net is a perfect illustration of how it always goes. Remember IE6?

So, while I certainly won't mourn Flash, I still appreciate having support for it on my 3vo. There's lots of silly games and videos I wouldn't have been able to fool around with otherwise.

Originally posted by xnonsuchx:

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Because Flash is inefficient and bloated, which is especially not good for battery-operated devices.

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