Adobe and Apple are jockeying for power over the mobile computing future, but it's not as simple as the fanboys and haters would have you think. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Apple’s iPhone, MacBook trackpads, and Magic Mouse all are jammed with multitouch goodness, as will the iPad be. What the iPad won’t have is Flash. Because multitouch and Flash aren’t compatible. The ...

Back when Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, haters declared what would become the world’s most popular phone dead in the water because it didn’t (and still doesn’t) support Adobe Flash. Everyone ...

In a rare open letter, Steve Jobs details technical arguments for Apple's refusal to let Flash on the iPhone and suggests Adobe focus on HTML. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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After more than four years of tit-for-tat sniping and surprising vehemence, Adobe has finally thrown in the towel: Adobe is abandoning Flash on mobile devices, choosing instead to focus on HTML5 tools ...

Why and when will Adobe Flash Player become outdated? The open standards HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly provide much more features than Flash Player and also have much better protection against viruses ...

Adobe has finally acknowledged what the rest of us have known for years: Flash needs to die. The software giant plans to stop supporting and updating Flash Player by 2020, according to a statement ...