The Fall of Flash: Adobe Flash
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 6:58PM 
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The modern story of the fall of a platform is being lived out by the once great Flash. In a world where it was becoming the most important feature of the web, Adobe's Flash has somehow squandered it all and looks to be on the verge of being displaced by HTML5, which isn't really out of the gate yet.
The nail in the coffin seems to be the continued issues Adobe is having with Apple, and its mobile products. Apple has made a concerted effort to avoid the technical issues which surround Flash. And that is to avoid Flash all together. Many complain about this stance, but if you look at what is happening in hardware and the web, Apple is really just getting ready for the future, a less buggy future.
Steve Jobs comment at a recent Apple Town Hall meeting summed up the point:
"Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5."
The main issue that Apple would have had is that Flash is heavy on systems with few resources to spare. And with the push to Net-books and mobile devices, the future is not heading to more power as much as it is heading towards more portable power. This sort of move just doesn't have a place for Flash, unless of course Adobe can come up with a better, leaner and faster version.
