{"id":507,"date":"2017-07-25T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/?p=507"},"modified":"2017-07-25T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:12:10","slug":"adobe-eol-flash-content-continues-to-move-to-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/2017\/07\/25\/adobe-eol-flash-content-continues-to-move-to-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe EOL Flash, Everything Continues To Move To Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

TL;<\/strong> DR<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Adobe have announced the official EOL for Flash, with a 3.5 year lead in period to December 31st 2020. Legacy apps need to be refreshed or retired.<\/p>\n

Adobe announced the official EOL for Flash earlier today<\/a>. While not a surprise given the decline in Flash usage over the last decade, the move still has implications for many older websites, applications and corporate IT departments.\u00a0\u00a0Adobe have co-ordinated this announcement with a number of other vendors, including\u00a0Apple<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Google<\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mozilla<\/a>\u00a0to help make the transition easy for developers.<\/p>\n

The web has morphed from the early days of flash to a mobile first environment. One only must spend a few moments looking around in any public location to see how people are consuming content. We recently had the opportunity to get a behind the scenes look at some of the operations for Wimbledon courtesy of IBM<\/a>, and one status screen particuarly caught my attention.<\/p>\n

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The above picture was taken on July 10th<\/sup>, just over half way through the tournament. The split between mobile and desktop page views on the main Wimbledon website was hovering at about 80\/20. Keeping in mind that most of the play at Wimbledon occurs during working hours in the UK, and you can see just how dramatic the shift is.<\/p>\n

The same, and even more extreme, splits are playing out across multiple other markets and regions. India, for example, is expected to pass 450 million internet users<\/a> by November 2017, with mobile having already leapfrogged desktop computers for access in rural areas. In China almost 95% of internet users used a mobile device for accessing content in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Flash never had a real chance to establish itself in mobile as Apple never approved it for use on iOS<\/a>, and it was dropped from Android back in 2012. As the macro trends and shifts have played out mobile browser support for everything from HTML5, to a variety of JavaScript frameworks, to CSS support has reached the same level of functionality, and some might argue surpassed, as that of the desktop.<\/p>\n

That said there are still many flash, flex and air apps in the wild, particularly behind corporate IT firewalls and companies need to put a plan in place. Jeffery Hammond<\/a> at Forrester has published a handy quick triage guide<\/a> that companies may find useful.<\/p>\n

Disclaimers<\/strong>: Adobe, Google, Microsoft and IBM are current RedMonk clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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