28.01.2010 14:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Is Adobe Flash Becoming Inexorably Irrelevant?

While the iPhone market share is growing at a steady state, and the iPad success seems to be already on track, we could question the impact of those new terminals on Adobe Flash. Indeed, the iPhone OS does not support flash (for marketing reasons as well as hardware as it drains a lot of resources), and the growing success of HTML v5.0 is becoming a true alternative to Flash. The management of video tags on webpage is not fully defined in HTML v5, one would need a video player, but integration of QuickTime as a true alternative, and the choice of Apple. Mac-dedicated websites could not really be Flash-based, especially if we consider that 5% of our readers are using iPhone/iPod touch. If we had to refresh our website today (we are still working on the new one initiated months ago), we could not choose Flash as the basement of it. The situation for major players such as Google/YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion is even more obvious, and their current investment to develop Flash-free mobile platform is the

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