Apple wins: Flash will cease to be a reality on mobile phones. The company responsible for the support of this programming language for interactive content based on audio and video, Adobe, has already announced that it would stop developing the mobile version of this standard, in favor of promoting HTML5, as those of Cupertino have bet since the launch of iOS (the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch system).
As if Adobe's position were not enough, or perhaps precisely because of the statement it made a few weeks ago about its intentions to bury Flash, from Google they have decided to get the batteries with their latest operating system for smartphones, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).
And it is that as we know through Phone Arena, those of Mountain View would not have equipped their most advanced platform for smartphones with native support to launch Flash content. But even more: it will not be possible to download the mobile application that allows you to play videos, banners and other files programmed in Flash.
But things still get better, since the previous versions of the systems that allowed to recognize this type of content will not be compatible with ICS either, so that Google gives a definitive lock to the system without clarifying how the thousands could be displayed of pages that today host Flash files in one way or another.
Adobe itself announced the launch of a tool that allows Flash content to be converted to be viewed in browsers prepared for the HTML5 standard, although Google has not clarified whether they will use a system of this nature.
The Skyfire browser for iOS, for example, offers a similar function, proceeding with a remote conversion function that sends Flash files to servers that transform the contents to return them to the user's browser in a format that is readable by the device. However, as we say, it is still unknown if it will be the formula that Android 4.0 will adopt to read websites with Flash information.
Update: Since Google announced that finally ICS will actually be ready to play Flash content, but will be the latest version of the system that carries native support.
