Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

[Rick Stevens]

On 02/22/2012 12:53 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Joe Zeff wrote:
>> Why?  All of the Microsoft fanbois will have it and you'll be able
>> to use it on your Mac.  Like it or not, that's well over 90% of the
>> market, and to Adobe, that's all that matters.
>
> Not any more: they’ve never had Flash on iPhone or iPad, a lot of
> Android devices don’t have it, and Adobe have already announced that
> they’re going to stop developing it for Android. And I understand
> Microsoft won’t allow Flash on Windows 8 on ARM.
>
> That means no Flash on mobiles, and no Flash on tablets. These days,
> that’s well over 10% of the market, and more in the future.

Also let's not forget that Google is pushing HTML5 and that means H.264
for now.  H.264 is YAFPC (yet another f***ing proprietary codec).
I have this funny feeling we're entering another phase of the mp3 wars.
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