The Slow Death of Adobe Flash

The once dominant Web technology falls due to this slow mobile development

Adobe ended a long fight against creeping irrelevance last week by announcing that it will stop building new versions of its Flash technology for smartphone browsers.

Flash has long been one of the dominant media technologies on the Web. It powered the majority of online video and games, and brands often built their websites with Flash, seeing it as a way to deliver slick marketing material. But the process of making Flash work on mobile devices was slow, and Apple's infamous refusal to support it on the iPhone or iPad has finally struck it a fatal blow.

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