The death of Steve Jobs is not coincidental to the death of Adobe Flash Mobile Player, as if Jobs pulled Flash, and brought it down with him to his grave. Hating Flash might just be a premonition that it will not last that long in the business.

Adobe confirmed Wednesday, Nov. 9, 20011 that it will no longer develop Flash for Mobile devices. But will still continue to provide bug fixes and security updates for devices with Flash configurations. An increase in investment to HTML5 will be Adobe's focus, but is said to innovate Flash where it can have most impact in the industry including video and gaming.

In a statement from Danny Winokur, Adobe Vice President and General Manager for Interactive Development, "Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook".

Winokur also said that "HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively", referring to Apple when he meant exclusively. It may be recalled that Jobs made his dislike to Flash know to the public that he never used it in all the Apple devices, and instead chose HTML5.

The disagreement between Jobs and Adobe started way back 1999 when Adobe turned down the request of Jobs to create a version of Adobe Premiere and Photoshop for Mac. But the dispute was never made public until Jobs issued a statement on his "Thoughts on Flash". Jobs said that Flash is no longer needed for multimedia purposes in mobile devices and with the release of innovations such as the HTML5.

A heightened discussion sparked between Flash and HTML5 developers, but many recommend that the varying browser support considers functionality.

Originally proposed by Opera Software, HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is one of Internets core technology.