Flash, Savior of the Universe, Slain by Steve Jobs! - Granite Grok

Flash, Savior of the Universe, Slain by Steve Jobs!

Heavy geek stuff this. For many years, at least since 1999, there has been war between Steve Jobs and Adobe, originally stemming from adobe’s refusal to update one of its products for the Macintosh platform.

As mobile devices have proliferated, it became apparent that Flash Player was not very efficient in terms of CPU and battery usage. Apple and Steve Jobs remained steadfast in their refusal to adopt Flash, especially on the iPad, iPod, and iPhone platforms. Steve Jobs is sadly not with us to savor his victory, but Flash is dead, long live HTML5, an alternate method for handling motion and video in web pages. Adobe has already begun to introduce HTML5 throughout their product line.

Stories in the Wall Street Journal and Reuters Provide more details, meanwhile, enjoy this music vid, no doubt courtesy of Flash, at least for now!

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