The popular browser plug-in eventually evolved into a must-have program on PCs and smartphones. Many of the video games you spent hours playing in childhood were powered by Flash. It will even support ShockWave Flash files created on either Adobe Flash Pro, Adobe Flash Builder or FlashDevelop. Running on the Adobe Flash platform, the player allowed you to view multimedia content, execute rich Internet applications and stream audio and video files. Photo: Flash Player 10.1 on a Nexus One phone (Keith Axline/Wired.Adobe Flash Player was the silent super hero of the computer software world.

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Still, for Adobe, it's a big step toward making Flash a contender in mobile multimedia. On a Nexus One, Flash content - especially video - took time to load, which was frustrating. Gadget Lab's first look at a Flash Player 10.1 beta showed that Flash on the mobile phone can be fun, unlocking sites that otherwise would be inaccessible. Much of that content has been unavailable on mobile devices: The previous version of Adobe's mobile Flash player, Flash Lite, supported only basic Flash content, such as video. Adobe's Flash standard is still widely used on the internet, for everything from animated banner ads and splash screens to infographics, educational content and games. Who knows how it will perform?'īut many developers are not convinced.

We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath. 'Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We have never seen it,' wrote Jobs in a note posted on the Apple website in April. 'We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now.

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