Adobe: Flash will soon conquer 250 million smartphones
A recent statement released on Adobe’s website claims that in just under two years, its Flash technology will be used by more than 250 million unlocked smartphone subscribers. All this inspite of the fact that Flash will not make an appearance on any Apple products.
By 2012, Adobe claims to have a monopoly of around 53% of all smartphones. Although Adobe Flash is currently the defacto standard when it comes to viewing online video, it is currently not possible for smartphone users to directly access sites such as YouTube and watch videos. However, there are special softwares that come with each smartphone allowing users to watch such videos. While Adobe Flash is present on most devices, Apple criticizes the use of Flash on any of its smartphones due to the lack of touch capabilities associated with it as well as its high consumption of resources.
Currently, this technology is already present on most devices such as the Froyo and Motorola BackFlip Unlocked Android 2.2, but come 2012, it will soon be present on various platforms such as webOS, Symbian and BlackBerry. Adobe plans that gaining a vast public sharing on various platforms will automatically force Apple to relent on its standing against Adobe Flash.
A statement released on Adobe’s website says, “Even though Apple might not relent and decide on making use of Flash on their applications such as the iPhone, iTouch or iPad, we will still be able to see an increase in the overall market share of platforms using our web technology.”
While this is what Adobe plans to do, one can be sure that it would be nearly impossible to get Steve Jobs to relinquish his stance against Adobe. Considering the great success that the iPad as well as the iPhone are having, it seems that for now, users are quite happy, not having Flash on such devices.
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