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Following Adobe’s decision for the culmination of Flash technology, its time for Apple to rejoice. As reported in an earlier post, HTML5 will be the only method to playback video on mobile phones and tablets. This is a big win for Apple, the company to most strongly oppose Flash over the last few years. The company is indeed beginning to dictate the industry’s future. The company has also taken the lead in video streaming. Apple’s homegrown streaming protocol, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), has always been the one and only way to stream content to iDevices. Now, due to the popularity of iOS, many tool vendors and even competing platforms are starting to support it too.
According to Adobe, Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) will be the last mobile platform to use a Flash plugin. The OS has been launched without one, though. Given Flash’s terrible track record with mobile, it wouldn’t be surprising if it never arrives. Therefore, video publishers should ensure their Android video works in HTML5.
So, for now Android better update itself to work with HTML5 or lose the war against Apple in mobile video.
Reference: Why Apple is winning the mobile video format war
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