Adobe is of the opinion that the failure of Flash for mobile devices in particular, is due to Apple, which Flash under any condition wanted for iOS. However, the company admitted that html5 is a better solution than Flash.
That says product manager Mike Chambers, a declaration for stopping the development by Adobe of Flash for mobile browsers. In addition to the refusal of Apple to the software to allow was a fragmentation of the smartphone and tablet market is a major cause for the fact that Flash little reach received among mobile users.
Chambers also mentions the widespread support for html5 on mobile devices as a reason. Interestingly enough, gives the Adobe ceo that this technique is best to multimedia content available to mobile devices.
Adobe was recently known to stop the development of Flash for mobile phones. The company wants to instead focus on applications using the Air runtime to work. This should be possible from a single codebase apps for various platforms to write. Also Adobe has stated to focus on developing html5 tools.
Apple and Adobe have, in the past, much criticism of each other. Then-Apple ceo Steve Jobs did not want to provide support in iOS because Flash is insecure, and in addition, proprietary software is.