Mobile and tablet future of Flash looks less and less radiant

Apple mobile phones and tablets did not support Flash.

Developers from Microsoft, as announced less than a week ago , also abandoned Flash support in Metro IE10.

And what about Android?
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And in Android, users themselves are thinking of abandoning Flash. Climbing from my mobile phone in the Android Market, I see among the reviews for Adobe Flash Player 11 a lot of hostility. (I haven’t seen so many hostile reviews in the Market for a long time.) And all of them are caused by the size of the application: a six megabyte package occupies a 17 megabyte in a mobile phone after installation, and it cannot be moved to an SD card. For comparison: Firefox Beta (although it’s a browser!) Takes less than fifteen megabytes (and you can move it to an SD card), and Google Maps takes up ten and a half.

Even users of the HTC Desire (last year’s hit among HTC cell phones) are beginning, they said, to experience noticeable difficulties caused by a lack of long-term mobile phone memory; and among owners of less powerful devices, there is a growing readiness not to update Flash at all, instead limiting it to the old version of it, which is stitched by the device manufacturers (in a kind of firmware) and therefore does not take away free memory.

You understand that this is fraught with the prevalence of old bugs, which are gradually becoming more and more known - which means that the general insecurity of the Flash platform.