PanoTools NG:
Re: android pano?
Ken Warner 2012-Feb-24 22:54:42
Frankly Scarlet, I don't give a damn [about mobile].
Me personally, I don't even have a cell phone let alone the need to see yours or anybody else's panos on it in any medium.
Roger Howard wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ken Warner <#removed#> wrote:
>
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>> Right! We have to all worry! Only 5 or 10 years before it all comes
>> crashing down.
>>
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-57383611-2/adobe-vows-5-to-10-more-y...
>>
>
> Did you read the article? Did you read the OP's question?
>
> The Flash plugin for mobile devices project is dead - cancelled (
> http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=flash+mobile...);
> if at some point in the future, mobile and desktop/laptop OS'es converge
> then we might be able to say it's back, but that 5-10 years has nothing to
> do with mobile, it's Adobe showing they have a roadmap for the mainstream
> (Windows and Mac OSX - and maybe Linux - on x86/64, with a decidedly less
> certain future on Windows 8 as well) Flash Player. Note, the only real
> mentions of mobile in the roadmap are about AIR - not Flash Player.
>
> Also, even on Android versions that do have Flash Player support today, the
> new Chrome for Android recently launched doesn't have any plugin support (
> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/adobe-confirms-no-flash-for-...)
> - and it's a far better browser than the old Android browser, so many
> people are already updating, meaning they have no Flash support in browser
> anymore.
>
> So yes, Flash on Android is dying even faster than we thought just a few
> months ago when it was put into maintenance mode. What part of this story
> is so hard for people to understand?
>
> I'm not going to get into Flash vs. HTML5; just the facts - Flash Player on
> mobile is in maintenance mode today - no new versions, no new platforms,
> just critical updates - and a big new nail in its coffin was put in by
> Google with the release of Chrome for Android. The Flash on mobile future
> is getting smaller, not bigger. And since it's nowhere to be seen on iOS,
> and nowhere to be seen on Windows Mobile 8 or any other forthcoming mobile
> platform, it's not hard to read the tea leaves.
>
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