Recently I have found one of my fellow classmate, Tiffany Tsao’s blogpost rather intriguing, titling “Sorry Flash, You Just Didn’t Get a Bite of that Apple” where she discusses the implications of the recent announcement Adobe Flash made addressing that it will now stop developing flash for mobile devices. This most likely has to due with “the banning of Flash on the iPhone” as Tiffany states. Therefore i like to add on to this view point of the impact Apple, IPhone brings and the implications for us consumers.

First of all, no doubt that Adobe’s decision of not supporting flash anymore on mobile devices is hugely impacted by growing amount of IPhone users. But what does this mean for other smart phone users in the market? First of all, the ending of this era is most likely a rebirth for Adobe and a good news for us consumers. Why? Because many smart phone users have had problems with browsing media coded for flash, and more importantly, this step of Adobe moving away from Flash, indicates its ready to embark on to the new technology – HTML5 – a universal standard for displaying media on web. Which means us, consumers are now able to view the same media from any platforms. Which is a win win situation for us consumers, and Adobe Flash itself.