The future of mobile and tablet Flash looks less radiant

Apple mobile phones and tablets did not support Flash for a while.

Microsoft developers, as announced less than a week ago , also dropped Flash support in Metro IE10.

And what about Android?

And in Android, it seems that users themselves are thinking of abandoning Flash. Climbing from my mobile phone to the Android Market, I see among the reviews for Adobe Flash Player 11 a lot of hostile. (I haven’t seen so many hostile reviews in the Market for a long time.) And all of them are caused by the volume of the application: a six- megabyte package takes after installing 17⅓ megabytes in a mobile phone, and it cannot be moved to an SD card. For comparison: Firefox Beta (although it's a whole browser!) Takes up less than fifteen megabytes (and you can move itto an SD card), and Google Maps takes ten and a half.

Even users of HTC Desire (last year’s hit among HTC mobile phones) begin, according to them, to experience noticeable difficulties caused by the lack of long-term memory of the mobile phone; and among the owners of less powerful devices, there is a growing readiness not to update Flash at all, instead confining itself to its old version, which is flashed by the device manufacturers (a kind of firmware) and therefore does not take up free memory.

You yourself understand that this is fraught with the widespread prevalence of old bugs, which are gradually becoming more and more known - and therefore, the general insecurity of the Flash platform.