Current Events #8: Adobe Flash Concedes Defeat

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. --Douglas MacArthur

I love my iPad! LOVE IT! But, the one thing that frustrates me is that it won't play Flash content. I can't watch the multimedia at many websites and I can't browse Ikea! I did a little research and found Steve's Jobs "Thoughts on Flash" to to understand why this aspect of the web did not function on the iPad.

This week an article at Vancouver Sun caught my attention: Adobe throws in the towel to Apple in Web Software War. If it's not going to be developed for mobile devices, I wonder how long it's going to be maintained at all. Here is an article at CNN that states that Adobe Flash is on its way out on all devices.

It looks like big changes are coming down the line for some of our favourite Web 2.0 tools like Animoto, Voicethread and Prezi.

References

Finkle, J. (2011, November 9). Adobe throws in the towel. The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved from http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/steve-jobs/Adobe+throws+towel+Apple+software/5683707/story.html.

Goldman, D. (2011, November 10). The beginning of the end for Adobe's Flash. CNN. Retrieved from http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/10/technology/adobe_flash/

Job, S. (2010, April). Thoughts on Flash. Retrieved from http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

A Life's Journey with Technology

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
--Mark Twain

Exploring Web 2.0 has given me a chance to refresh my skills with Voicethread and reflect on my use of technology and how it's changed since the early 1980s when I was a kid.