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I wonder if this will mean the end of Flash Player for Mac? Will Adobe bother releasing an ARM version?

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> I wonder if this will mean the end of Flash Player for Mac?

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I wish Flash on Mac would die die die. Youtube has the ability of showing me non-flash video on a Mac. And yet they often won't. The exact same video that won't play on a Mac will play just fine on an iPad. Evil bastards! With Flash dead, Google wouldn't be able to demand I use it.

Activate Developer Tools in the preferences of Safari. This gives you a Developer menu in the toolbar. When a site refuses to play video on your Mac because it needs Flash, you tell Safari to pretend it's an iPad. The site invariably serves you the video you wanted, without Flash.

I read this advice previously on HN, and it worked for a while. Then Google changed something, and it stopped working. I don't know, maybe I was screwing up. Or maybe it's just easier for Google to roll ads ahead of the video when it's in Flash. Or maybe Google wants me to download Chrome, which has a built in Flash player. Not gonna do that until it supports NoScript. YMMV, obviously.

No, it still works just fine. I was using it just yesterday...

I think all existing x86 apps would be emulated.

Emulating x86 on ARM would be trickier than emulating PPC on x86. But even if emulation did work, that would mean you would have to use an x86 browser to use Flash. You wouldn't be able to use the x86 plugin with a native browser.

In practice, that would make a huge difference in terms of Flash's market share.

There are already ARM versions for Android, but whether they will bother making the mac version build for it is a different question.

Not any more. Flash player for Android hasn't been updated or available for more than a year.

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