RIM Plans to Keep Supporting Flash for the PlayBook, Despite Adobe Dropping Mobile Flash

November 14, 2011
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Finally, the shoe we all knew would drop dropped when Adobe announced it will no longer develop Flash for mobile devices. Instead, Adobe says it will focus on HTML5. Smart move, and one in which everyone wins.

A few days later, RIM announced that it will continue to support Flash via its own implementations for its miserably-selling PlayBook tablet despite Adobe’s statement that HTML5 is the future:

RIM, for its part, says it has licensed Adobe’s source code and plans to continue supporting Flash on the PlayBook.

“As an Adobe source code licensee, we will continue to work on and release our own implementations. RIM remains committed to delivering an uncompromised Web browsing experience to our customers, including native support for Adobe Flash Player on our BlackBerry PlayBook tablet (similar to a desktop PC browser), as well as HTML5 support on both our BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook browsers,” RIM said in a statement toAllThingsD.

Good luck with that. Nothing like forking the code of a technology that’s being demonstrably abandoned by its creator. Note to RIM: now that Adobe isn’t supporting Mobile Flash, it’s hardly the selling point you think it is.

Am I the only one who thinks RIM is completely devoid of sane leadership?

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