“Beginning August 15th we will use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th.”
And the years of speculation are over -- you don't need Flash on your mobile device. The debate over Flash and its importance for creating a complete mobile experience is dead. Flash is only one of many Adobe products which has suffered from poor performance and security issues. Steve Jobs, never one to look in the rear-view mirror, understood that Flash was a proprietary technology that prevented true innovation for the mobile platform. And it came as no surprise that Apple elected to support HTML5 instead of Flash. Years later, the marketplace has spoken and Jobs was right, again.
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