Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. “I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Fast forward to 2010, Steve Job released an open letter on his thoughts about Flash. The beginning of the end of Flash can be traced back to 2007 with the release of the iPhone, which came equipped with a mobile Internet browser - but did not support Adobe Flash. In addition, Flash has become expensive to maintain and support due to crashes and bugs, and its ability to provide rich content has been diminishing over the years as more modern approaches have come to the surface. RELATED CONTENT: Saving Flash from extinction At this point, it’s holding back the web.” It introduces some scary security and privacy issues by way of Flash cookies,” the Occupy Flash website stated. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent (and often unusable) experience for fast-growing percentage of the users who don’t use a desktop browser. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. There was even an Occupy Flash movement to “rid the world of the Flash Player plugin.” Over the last couple of years more and more businesses have announced that they will no longer support Flash.

There once was a time where Adobe Flash was the obvious choice for building rich web applications, but as the Internet began to grow and technology started to advance, Flash slowly started to die out.

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