In an announcement Adobe has said that the company will stop updating and distributing Adobe Flash at the end of December, 2020. Maybe 31st of December,2020.
Various web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, don’t run Flash-based content automatically, although, they still support the multimedia software. Google notes that today only 17% desktop Chrome users visit Flash-based websites; this number was 80% around three years ago.
Many foresaw Flash’s ill fate years ago. This includes the likes of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who in 2010, dedicated an entire open letter to Adobe Flash, detailing why Apple stopped supporting the same on iPhones and iPads running iOS.
Moreover, people have criticized Flash over its security vulnerabilities, browser crashes, and poor battery life of the machines. Ultimately, it led to the fall of the software that had made a great contribution in transforming the internet we see today.
It’s hard to say, but if Flash wasn’t there, popular websites like YouTube, which now loves HTML 5, might have had a different fate. Although, I am not saying it wouldn’t have been that successful as it is today. So is the case of an uncountable number of websites featuring Fash-based games, videos, online radio apps, and other things.
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