Tech World Bids Goodbye To Adobe FlashAdobe Flash (by Adobe Systems Inc., a software which gave a boost to the internet by empowering web pages with animations and video clips, has become a top contender for the software thats goingto be dead. The software was heavily criticized de to the secrity isses.Sites li!e Faceboo! and both poplar web browsers, "ozilla Firefo# and $oogle temporarily disabled Flash. The %hief Secrity &fficer of Faceboo!, Ale# Stamos, as!ed Adobe not to try to fi# it anymore bt 'st !ill it instead. It is revealed that hac!ers are e#ploiting a bg in the software, something Adobe is trying to fi#. Flashs downfall is enhanced by this shtdown from the tech giants. This illstrates how fre(ently the bsiness is changing and how mobile devices are reshaping this landscape.The Flash )layer pdates are available for the sers to download. If the consmers are concerned abot the secrity ris!, they have the option of ninstalling the software from their compters. *owever, most of the video content is still hosted by Flash, and consmers will be missing ot on that.Flash was introdced in the +,,-s, mainly as an animation program. &n almost every compter made, it was inclded as an application. )oplar sites inclding .oTbe and /etfli# sed this technology for streaming the videos. "ost advertising agencies sed it for creating attention see!ing online ads. Flash was the most important featre of the web.The decline in the se of Adobe Flash started with the emergence of the i)hone in 0--1. 2ith the emergence of sch a compact device, Flash started development for mobile phones. *owever, the device, a hge sccess on )%s, had become (ite heavy over the years and re(ired lots of comptational power. 2ith the limited 3A" and battery life of a phone, it was a big problem.Flash needed to ma!e wholesome changes to wor! with the i)hone. *owever, resorces were not allocated for this. The problem was componded becase Adobe coldnt come to terms with Apple for licensing Flash. Steve 4obs also gave insight to the problems that were faced by Flash. According to him, Flash consmed a lot of battery and was a secrity ris!. It was a bad choice for the mobile platform.2ith the condemnation of Flash by "r. 4obs, other companies eventally started to replace Flash. &ne of them was 5rightcove Inc., which, li!e .otbe, switched to open6sorce free software, which was sited for both the )%s as well as mobile phones.Thogh Adobe still made money from flash6based websites, it wasnt able to capitalize. The Flash server software was eventally nable to compete against the open sorce alternatives. Althogh theAdobe Flash is still bndled with %hrome &S and "ac &S, it doesnt ma!e a profit from these sorces.As far as Adobe is concerned, Flash has become immaterial to its bsiness, with the revene generated being less than 7 percent of the total revene. The websites made for browsers are still sing it. *owever, the nmber of pages in which the software rns is less than 8 percent.2ith the decline in Flash, Adobe made changes to their software as well. The technologies that have replaced Flash are pivotal in the %reative %lod Tools for software developers. The investment in open *T"97 have increased in the past for years. .:ven thogh Flash has declined, this didnt come in the way of the companys sccess. 2ith softwareinclding )hotoshop being so poplar, the companys stoc! has increased by more than hndred percent since 0-+-, when "r 4obs denied the se of Flash for i)hone and i)ad.Adobe is still rnning, bt is still on the final chapter of its e#istence. :ven now, some people in the tech commnity appreciate it. 3oman Staroshni! from /etfli#, one of the five members of its Flash development team, was disappointed with the decline of the software. *e had to say, ;Its !ind of sad that this happened, becase it was a great platform. It did a great 'ob in merging the gap between thedesigners and the developers.