Adobe stops development of Flash for mobile phones

Adobe is going to stop making new Flash plug-ins for mobile browsers. The company wants to focus on applications using the Air runtime to work. The Android and Playbook versions will still be security updates.

That writes ZDnet. Adobe would to developers have notified that the Flash plug-in for mobile browsers will no longer be updated. Instead, the company wants the developer of Flash applications easier to create applications with the Adobe Air runtime. This should be possible from a single codebase apps for various platforms to write.

The Flash player for Android and BlackBerry’s Playbook on bug fixes and security updates continue to count. According to Adobe, there is a possibility that companies that license the source code, or even make adjustments. Which companies these are, is not clear.

The company made the presentation of the quarterly figures also announced that 750 jobs will be eliminated as a result of reorganization. It comes to positions in North America and Europe.