Flash is dead. Adobe proved they weren't serious about flash when they announced licensing restrictions, 9% "revenue sharing" and hoops you have to jump through

Flash is dead. Adobe proved they weren't serious about flash when they announced licensing restrictions, 9% "revenue sharing" and hoops you have to jump through in order to use the "premium" 3d stuff. They eventually changed their mind about the 9% revenue tax after developers revolted, but the damage was done now that everyone knows they'd even think of doing something like that. And they drove the nail in the coffin (which Steve Jobs supplied), when they gave up on Flash for mobile. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/11/09/adobe-to-stop-work-on-flash-for-mobile-browsers/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/11/09/adobe-to-s... "Flash Player 11.1 is the last release of the Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers. Adobe will not add support for new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.). Adobe will continue to provide critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations through September 2013, and will also allow our source-code licensees to continue working on and releasing their own implementations." http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadma... There is no future for Flash. Adobe's all about HTML5 now, they don't give a shit about Flash any more, and neither should you. Unity3D went to great efforts to support Flash, and now they're sunsetting it, for good reason: Unity wrote on their blog: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/04/23/sunsetting-flash/ http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/04/23/sunsetting-flash/ We don’t see Adobe being firmly committed to the future development of Flash. This is evidenced by the cancellation of Flash Player Next, the instability of recent Flash Player versions and by Adobe’s workforce moving on to work on other projects. By introducing, and then abandoning, a revenue sharing model, Adobe eroded developers’ (and our) trust in Flash as a dependable, continuously improving platform. Developers are moving away from Flash, and while Flash publishing has gotten little traction, our own Unity Web Player has seen unprecedented growth in recent months (now installed on over 200M computers and already installed by 1/3 of all Facebook gamers).