Adobe product manager fingers Apple for death of Flash Player for mobile

So blame Apple for Flash player showing up the most as the root of crashes in the Safari crash logs? Thats rich, the amount of segfaults I saw that plugin produce just in my own use doesn't lead me to believe Adobe knows how to make Flash innovative.

To be honest I'm happy Microsoft followed Apple's lead with the statement that Metro IE has no plugins. Given the amount of Java/Flash security problems sticking to straight web technologies is just a good idea. I'm sorry Adobe doesn't seem to want to open source or make a standards approved runtime specification. At this point I think we know Adobe can't make a language runtime that is cross platform and low in power consumption. Now if only Google would drop the builtin flash or disable it by default. This is one area where Chrome isn't helping things along.

Perhaps they should look to the legion of flash applications whose hover-based interfaces were dubious at best on desktops and would have been fully unusable on touchscreen devices.

Just as I started to have hopes that they were starting to focus on the future and really learned their lesson I read something like this and it makes me sad. If they feel they were tricked into this or that Steve sabotaged them by making a deal with google and Microsoft behind their backs it shows that they haven't learned a damned thing.

It'll be interesting when the 'old web' is distinguished by it's use of Flash, so with modern devices you can't see content of ancient sites or web games.