15 Aug '12, 3pm

Flash disappears from Android store - Jobs was ... - Electronics Weekly: Share |. Steve Jobs famously challenged...

Steve Jobs famously challenged Adobe to demonstrate (mobile) Flash in its glory on handheld devices, and claimed it never passed his test. Well, The Register reports that the Flash Player is to vanish from Android store today, as well. Mashable.com reports Adobe flagged this back in June, with Jelly Bean being the clincher: "There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1," writes Adobe on its official blog, adding that it recommends "uninstalling Flash Player on devices which have been upgraded to Android 4.1." When it came to low power devices, touch interfaces and open standards - key mobile concerns - Jobs always claimed Flash fell short. In his "open letter ", at the time, about Apple's rejection of Flash, he wrote: "We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We ...

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