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A game of musical chairs has been going on for the past few years between Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe.

The tune changed with the mobile revolution and with the shift toward cloud services, prompting the major consumer-oriented computer software players to take seats atop their platforms.
Apple embraced the Web as the window that would let air into its otherwise sealed eco-system. For Google, it has always been about the Web. And Microsoft, still trying to reconcile the Web with its desktop roots, picked a fight on the desktop: It launched Silverlight to compete with Adobe for Web developers.

Adobe was left standing when the music stopped, its Flash platform straining under the weight of fifteen years of code, without a hardware ecosystem or operating system for support.

Detractors charge that Flash has become bloated, is insecure, and performs poorly on Mac OS X machines. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs is among those making such accusations, the problem can’t be ignored. Unless Adobe does something and fast, Flash will become marginalized as developers move to HTML5 and whatever other technologies emerge to fill the void.

read full article: Adobe Defends Flash, Again
informationweek.com

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