Is Flash a dying technology?
Would you like to see Flash die away just now? Is it even true that Flash is nearing its end as Steve Jobs the Apple honcho mentioned in a recent presentation at the Wall Street Journal office? There are a lot of questions which needs to be answered before we write an obituary.
Adobe Flash is a wrapper, or a delivery mechanism which is used to deliver content such as video, animation and other such multimedia content. It is in fact the SWF files that are to be blamed, instead of the entire Flash system. These SWF files can be created using several tools that are easily available free of cost. There is no reason why Adobe should be blamed for the poor performance of these files which are used on websites. So the question that remains unanswered is – Is Apple a dying a slow death? If yes, what is killing it? Let’s find the answer.
Some developers who have witnesses the rise of Apple are pointing out the fact that Apple does not Flash as a business strategy. The reason behind this “technical decision” seems to be the control factor that Apple yields over its customer. If any developer were to create flash application on any website, then the dominion of Steve Jobs over the Mac totting customer will die a quick death. Steve Jobs recently said that he listens to the market and of the market screams for flash technology he is willing to change the decision. As far as we know the market seems more inclined to buying an Android device and not too far in the future there will be more Android users than iPad or iPhone users combined. We wonder if the Apple honcho has his ear at the right place! What’s more surprising is the fact that Apple was sought primarily because of the Adobe utilities such as Adobe Photoshop which was extensively supported by Apple not long ago. Now the same Apple has shown Adobe the door.
Flash is used extensively for annoying ads too, which makes it the sole cause for some people to use ad blockers and discard flash totally. Some say that HTML 5 will be a better alternative, but others opine that a buggy HTML 5 ad will be as much of a resource hog as a creepy flash ad. Developers around the world are shifting their loyalty to the latest technologies and flash seems more popular as of now. In the coming future we anticipate the apps market to be ruled by open source coded flash applications much to the chagrin of Steve Jobs. So, if the developers at Apple are to breathe free and truly compete with the Open Source giant, then it has to adopt as many developer friendly technologies as possibly rather than shun them.
Our opinion is that Flash should not be written off as yet.
