Flash is dead, finally

Steve Jobs famously called out Adobe Flash's poor performance in an article posted on Apple's Web site in early 2010. That set the blogosphere ablaze, and sparked a surprisingly public back-and-forth between Adobe and Apple. The thing was, Jobs wasn't playing favorites just to reduce Adobe's dominance on the Web (although that was obviously a nice side effect). He was pointing out that Flash just never worked very well on mobile devices. It was a power hog, it was sluggish, and the cause of a ton of malware problems. 

Adobe confirmed that it will cease all development of mobile versions of Flash. That means that Android, BlackBerry OS, and other devices that had touted Flash capability as one of their key selling points will soon no longer matter.  I experienced this personally as a good friend of mine actually considered buying an Android tablet instead of an iPad because the iPad did not deliver flash.  Thankfully, I was able to talk her out of this foolish decision.  You can like an Android tablet all you want, but not because it runs flash.  HTML 5 looks like the future for video and multimedia on the Internet