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Adobe dumps Flash Player for mobiles... it's what Steve Jobs would have wanted

Daily Mail - 10 Nov, 2011
By Daily Mail Reporter Adobe has confirmed rumours that it has ceased development of its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers. In a blog announcement from Adobe's Vice President Danny Winokur, it was revealed Adobe would focus on the HTML5 web ...

Adobe kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh

The Guardian - 10 Nov, 2011
Mobile Flash is being killed off. The plugin that launched a thousand online forum arguments and a technology standoff between Apple and the format's creator, Adobe, will no longer be developed for mobile browsers, the company said in a note that will ...

Adobe Falls After Plan to Cut 750 Jobs, Stop Flash Mobile

San Francisco Chronicle - 10 Nov, 2011
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Adobe Systems Inc. fell the most in 13 months after announcing plans to cut 750 jobs as it stops making Flash technology for mobile devices and shifts investment to programs for digital publishing and advertising. ...

Adobe throws in towel to Apple in Web software war

Reuters India - 10 Nov, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc halted development of its Flash Player for mobile browsers, surrendering to Apple Inc in a war over Web standards as the company surprised investors with a restructuring plan. ...

Adobe throws in towel to Apple in Web software war

Reuters - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen speaks at the Samsung keynote address on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 6, 2011. By Jim Finkle NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc halted development of its Flash Player for ...

The beginning of the end for Adobe's Flash

CNN - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe will no longer develop its mobile Flash app, though it will continue to support it for Android users. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Adobe is abandoning its Flash software for mobile devices. ...

Adobe vs Apple on Flash technology

Times of India - 10 Nov, 2011
Here is a timeline of the battle between consumer technology giant Apple Inc and software company Adobe Systems over the latter's Flash technology. NEW YORK: Here is a timeline of the battle between consumer technology giant Apple Inc and software ...

Flash fried

The Economist (blog) - 10 Nov, 2011
THE headline puns were inevitable. "Gone in a Flash" was a particular favourite. (Babbage couldn't resist giving it a whirl.) On November 9th Twitter and tech-news sites reverberated with schadenfreude and told-you-sos after Adobe Systems announced ...

Business Watch

Winnipeg Free Press - 10 Nov, 2011
NEW YORK -- Adobe says it will pull Flash, its software for web video and software, from the web browsers of mobile devices. Flash will still work on mobile apps and on computers' web browsers. It's a win for Apple Inc., which has famously banned Flash ...

Adobe abandons Flash Player for mobile phones

Salt Lake Tribune - 10 Nov, 2011
The Silicon Valley software company, which makes Photoshop and the ubiquitous Flash for websites, announced Wednesday it will no longer support the mobile version of its Flash Player for smartphones and computer tablets. Instead, the company, which was ...

Adobe concedes to Apple, ditches mobile Flash

Times of India - 10 Nov, 2011
NEW YORK: Adobe Systems Inc halted development of its Flash Player for mobile browsers, surrendering to Apple Inc in a war over Web standards as the company surprised investors with a restructuring plan. While the matter might seem like inside baseball ...

Adobe to get aggressive with HTML5, kill Flash for mobiles

Moneycontrol.com - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe has adopted an interesting new strategy by pinning its resources and efforts on HTML5 and in the process of doing so, the company will no longer develop Flash player for mobile phones. According to Adobe's Official Blog, their reasons for this ...

Adobe Recasts Flash as an App Builder and Embraces HTML5, the Flash Mobile Killer

Forbes - 10 Nov, 2011
But you can't play Flash content on an iPhone! Well, we can cross that argument off the mobile decision grid. According to a scoop last night on ZDNet, Adobe has announced that they are stopping development on Flash Player for mobile browsers. ...

Adobe ditches Flash for Mobile. You win this round, Apple.

Christian Science Monitor - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe is killing its mobile Flash platform, and cutting 750 full-time positions in North America and Europe, as it seeks to reorganize its business around what reps called "growth opportunities. ...

Adobe drops Flash for mobile browsers

Ninemsn - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe Systems Inc is pulling its Flash software for web video and games from the browsers of mobile devices, though Flash will still work on mobile apps and on the web browsers of regular computers. The move is a win for Apple Inc, which has famously ...

Without mobile, Adobe Flash is irrelevant

ZDNet (blog) - 10 Nov, 2011
The post attracted a great deal of comments from both sides of the argument and even a very reasoned Op-Ed response from one of the platform's most respected 3rd-party evangelists, Joseph Labrecque. ...

Adobe Systems to lay off 750 people

Business Today - 10 Nov, 2011
PTI New York November 10, 2011 Designing software firm Adobe Systems plans to lay off about 750 people and record up to $94 million charges as part of a restructuring effort to focus on businesses like digital media and marketing. ...

Adobe axes Flash for TVs too

CNET - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe Systems' announcement today that it would abandon its work on the mobile version of its Flash Player also applies to consumer devices such as TVs. Adobe will no longer focus on ...

Adobe to abandon Flash - stock price slides

San Francisco Chronicle - 10 Nov, 2011
Shares of Adobe Systems fell the most in three months after the company said it plans to stop making Flash technology for mobile devices, raising concern that new programs for digital publishing will be slow to boost revenue. The company said Tuesday ...

Adobe ends Flash for mobile devices, cuts 750 jobs

San Francisco Chronicle - 10 Nov, 2011
Peter Thiel will speak at Practice Fusion's second annual conference on Friday at the city's Masonic Center. That's the percentage drop in shares of Adobe Systems Wednesday. The San Jose company said Tuesday that it would eliminate 750 jobs and stop ...

Need to Redesign Your Flash-Based Website? Adobe Still Has the Edge

PCWorld (blog) - 10 Nov, 2011
Despite recently saying that Flash was “critical” for mobile communication, Adobe today announced it will no longer continue to develop Flash for mobile devices. For some, the writing has been on the wall since Steve Jobs ...

Tech wrap: Adobe scraps Flash for mobile browsers

Reuters Blogs (blog) - 10 Nov, 2011
Score a point for Apple. Software maker Adobe scrapped its Flash Player for mobile devices after a mutli-year battle with Apple over the merits of the technology, which is used to view videos and play games on the Web. Take a look back at the legendary ...

Adobe is pulling Flash from mobile browsers

The Seattle Times - 10 Nov, 2011
Shares of Adobe Systems, the largest maker of graphic-design software, fell the most in three months after the company said it plans to stop making Flash technology for mobile devices, raising concern that new programs for digital publishing will be ...

Adobe Had It Coming: The Long, Slow Goodbye of Mobile Flash

Wired News - 10 Nov, 2011
The Motorola Xoom shipped with the underwhelming, buggy beta version of Flash for Android tablets. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com On Wednesday morning, Adobe delivered the eulogy for its multi-media Flash platform for mobile, ...

Mobile Flash Abandoned for HTML5: Adobe Surrenders, Apple Wins?

TIME - 10 Nov, 2011
You can look at this one of two ways: Steve Jobs was right on the money about Adobe Flash, or Steve Jobs shrewdly worked to ensure he'd be right about Adobe's mobile multimedia plugin by using Apple's leverage to ...

Adobe Flash move: influenced by another Steve?

The Seattle Times (blog) - 10 Nov, 2011
Jobs was the most prominent critic of Flash and his decsion to exclude Flash from iOS devices was an early blow to Adobe, expedited the broad shift toward HTML 5 and directly affected millions of his customers. I wonder, though, how much Adobe was also ...

Adobe drops Flash for mobile-browsers, 750 jobs to go in company restructure

National Business Review - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe has dropped Flash development for mobile-browsers, saying it intends to focus on HTML5. And the company has said it will cut 750 jobs in North American and Europe, primarily, as it restructures to focus on digital media and marketing. ...

Adobe abandons Flash for mobiles

Irish Times - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe Systems has abandoned development of its Flash player for mobile devices in what amounts to a posthumous recognition of the software's condemnation by Apple chief Steve Jobs. Adobe shares fell as much as 14 per cent yesterday, with the Flash ...

Flash, boom, bang! Android and the Adobe Flash clash

Computerworld (blog) - 10 Nov, 2011
Well, gee willikers, I feel honored: The mighty Daring Fireball blog took a jab at me this afternoon. Mr. Fireball himself (hi, John!) dredged up an old story of mine about Flash, apparently to illustrate how Android's ...

Adobe Backs off on Flash for Mobile Browsers

ABC News - 10 Nov, 2011
Adobe Systems Inc. is pulling its Flash software for Web video and games from the browsers of mobile devices, though Flash will still work on mobile apps and on the Web browsers of regular computers. ...

 

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