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What did Apple win with the demise of mobile Flash?

“Adobe’s announcement this week that it was stopping further development of its Flash player for mobile devices could create more winners than losers in the cybersphere, according to several experts interviewed by MacNewsWorld,” John P. Mello Jr. reports for MacNewsWorld.

“One beneficiary of Adobe’s decision, which appears to have vindicated Apple’s dogged stance not to support Flash on its mobile devices, will be the latest version of the language for creating Web pages, HTML 5, according to Geoff Blair, studio director for Lost Decade Games,” Mello Jr. reports. “‘It’s a great thing for HTML 5 development,’ the game developer told MacNewsWorld.”

Mello Jr. reports, “Developers, in general, will be big winners from Adobe’s decision, added Jeremy Chone, the principle in N2N-Apps, a software consulting firm focusing on Web, mobile and tablet apps. ‘They are going to be less confused about what technology to use,’ he told MacNewsWorld.”

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