Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player • Hacker News Board

Re: Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player

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Post by batista » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

DrJokepu wrote: post #56

batista wrote: post #33

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Now these content creators have to worry about their clients on Linux platform. I don't thing many content creators worry that much about clients on the Linux platform. Some don't even care about OS X clients (like those that rushed to adopt Silverlight back in the day), and that platform has 10x the Linux desktop share.

It's not like it matters anymore, but Silverlight worked just fine on Macs ever since it was originally released.

Yes, but only after manually installing it. Which the majority of Mac user's didn't.

Re: Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player

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Post by rbarooah » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 6:13 PM UTC

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #37

stcredzero wrote: post #10

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Since there are so many mobile devices and so many of them are iPhones, anyone building websites will try to steer away from using Flash. So Flash is dying, fast. I'll call out Steve Jobs on this one. Another good one! The best they could have done is to completely open source it...frankly it is too late. There are standards worked on that will completely replace it: Websockets, WebGL, WebRTC and so on. "Incumbent" i…

I think it was the hard work of those who made browsers a viable alternative to Flash more than Steve Jobs' nyet. Without their work, not even the mighty Apple could have said no to Flash forever. But still, it was a good call by Steve Jobs, no doubt about that.

It's worth pointing out that a considerable number of the people who did that hard work were on Jobs payroll.

Re: Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player

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Post by bzbarsky » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 8:45 PM UTC

njharman wrote: post #43

icebraining wrote: post #17

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You do realize that those clients represent ~89% of all web usage, right?

Really, all smartphones, all tablets, all Linux is only 11%? I'm very doubtful and won't believe it without citation.

"Web usage", as a percentage, usually means "site visits", not "web users" or "devices".

Most people do not own tablets, outside of pretty narrow demographics. Most people who have a smartphone do way less browsing on it, by number of site visits, than they do on their computer.

Re: Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player

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Post by bzbarsky » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 8:47 PM UTC

snissn wrote: post #15

They're dropping support for firefox for linux it seems and will maintain support for chrome through their pepper api. Also they will maintain the latest binary release of flash for linux by pushing security patches. If anything they're dropping support for firefox and derivatives for linux and keeping support for chrome. But who uses firefox these days anyways?

As far as I can tell from the communication coming out of Adobe and Google, Adobe is dropping support for Linux, period. _Google_ will be maintaining Flash for Chrome on Linux. Which they largely have been anyway, as far as I can tell; they certainly haven't been shipping vanilla unmodified Flash (as you can tell by the fact that the version numbers of what they ship with Chrome don't match the official Adobe releases).