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Last chance to download Flash on your Android device before it disappears today


 Last chance to download Flash on your Android device before it disappears today
By Sivraj - 08-15-2012, 01:49 AM - Boxden > BX Tech


Back when Android was young, one of the big things that set it apart from iOS was its ability to run the mobile version of Adobe Flash in the browser. This was available for Android users once Froyo (Android 2.2) was launched. While watching YouTube videos in the browser was handy, at first the images were choppy and hard to view. As the hardware improved and Adobe continued to update the software, videos became smoother and easier to watch. Still, the app does eat a ton of memory and last November Adobe decided to stop development of the application for mobile devices.


Adobe shows off mobile Flash, May 2010

Over the last few months, Adobe has continued to send out updates even though the proverbial writing was on the wall. And with the Chrome for Android browser not providing support for Flash, Adobe has decided that it will pull the app from the Google Play Store on Wednesday. In other words, today is the very last day that you can install Adobe Flash on your Android model. Obviously HTML5 is the future and Adobe will be turning in that direction with its resources.

Steve Jobs on adobe flash

So is this a posthumous victory for Steve Jobs? The late co-founder of Apple hated Flash, calling it a "CPU hog" to the Wall Street Journal. On January 30 of 2010, during a famous verbal attack Jobs made on Google and Adobe, Jobs called Flash buggy and predicted that no one would be using it in the future, correctly predicting the ascent of HTML5.
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31 comments for "Last chance to download Flash on your Android device before it disappears today"


 08-15-2012, 03:32 AMaway - #2
Dangerously
I guess i was right a couple of years ago when everyone said i was a fool for thinking Flash was on it's way out [pic]

I'm still going to d/l flash whenever I get this Nexus 7 [pic]
 08-15-2012, 03:59 AMaway - #3
Darkdrone
Damn this is terrible
 08-15-2012, 05:50 AMaway - #4
P-Hill|M
I'm sure the .apk will be (and probably already) floating around
 08-15-2012, 05:59 AMonline - #5
ptwist
Jobs the visionary ...the goat CEO called this years ago and was berated for it...
 08-15-2012, 08:59 AMonline - #6
VictoryThagr8
Originally Posted by ptwist
Jobs the visionary ...the goat CEO called this years ago and was berated for it...
The thing is that Adobe flash was still useful at the time. We all know it was going to be dead. Most of the explicit tubes sites are using html5.

And also Homegrownfreaks.net still uses flash.
 08-15-2012, 09:27 AMaway - #7
layzie8171
does yahoo use html yet? cause i watch a lot of vids on yahoo and i know it uses flash right now
 08-15-2012, 09:30 AMaway - #8
XxHeAtMaKeRxX
it was all good just 2 years ago lol
 08-15-2012, 12:42 PMonline - #9
Sivraj
Does anybody have a list of sites that use html5 as of right now until html5 really really takes over??
 08-15-2012, 06:07 PMaway - #10
ThePainkiller
Hmmm. I need to get on this. Thanks.
 08-15-2012, 06:16 PMonline - #11
Ghost Terp
Originally Posted by Sivraj
Does anybody have a list of sites that use html5 as of right now until html5 really really takes over??
 08-15-2012, 07:04 PMaway - #12
hockeythug
Originally Posted by Sivraj
Does anybody have a list of sites that use html5 as of right now until html5 really really takes over??
all the big sites have html5 versions of there sites now.
 08-15-2012, 07:14 PMonline - #13
Sivraj
Originally Posted by ghost8
Originally Posted by hockeythug
all the big sites have html5 versions of there sites now.
[pic] cool will check em out.
 08-15-2012, 07:59 PMaway - #14
surreyjack
flash is the only thing that made android phones better then iphones....
 08-15-2012, 09:05 PMaway - #15
Manny05
Originally Posted by surreyjack
flash is the only thing that made android phones better then iphones....
The only thing? [pic]
 08-15-2012, 09:12 PMonline - #16
Adamsville
Originally Posted by surreyjack
flash is the only thing that made android phones better then iphones....
[pic]
 08-15-2012, 09:22 PMaway - #17
Explicit
Originally Posted by surreyjack
flash is the only thing that made android phones better then iphones....
[pic]
 08-16-2012, 01:01 AMaway - #18
JoeDoe22
[pic][pic][pic]

Originally Posted by surreyjack
flash is the only thing that made android phones better then iphones....
 08-16-2012, 01:53 AMaway - #19
Yung Dilla
i got the apk hit me up if yall need it
 08-16-2012, 02:04 AMaway - #20
Yung Dilla
i got the apk hit me up if yall need it
 
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