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The App-ocalypse: can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete?

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It's the apps. The iPhone and Android conquered the world because of the apps. More specifically, what keeps Android and iOS dominant is the utter lack of those apps on competing platforms. But today, the mobile landscape is significantly different than it was a year or two ago (let alone five). Today, apps aren't really necessary. In fact, it's...

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Adobe ditches ‘Flash’ name as it tries to catch up with a web built on open standards
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Adobe is getting rid of Flash, at least in name. The company announced today it’s changing the name of its Flash Professional CC software to Animate CC, reflecting better tools for creating content with HTML5 instead of Flash. With the rise of mobile computing and smartphones, Flash has seen steep competition from open web standards like HTML5, which can...
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