From DailyTech: Controversial as it may have been at the time, late Apple, Inc. (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs' tirade against Adobe Systems, Inc.'s (ADBE) Flash multimedia player ultimately appears to have been vindicated. Even as Adobe shows signs of giving up on Flash development -- transitioning its software suites to support HTML5 development, top players in the internet services market continue to purge the waning flash from the Internet.
The latest effort comes courtesy of Google Inc. (GOOG), a top backer of the increasingly ubiquitous HTML5 multimedia content standard for PCs and mobile devices.
In a post to its Google+ social network, Google Ads announced that partners' Flash ads on its Google Ads Display Network will now be auto-converted to HTML5, by default. This will greatly streamline the showing of advertising content on mobile browsers, where Flash compatibility has been abandoned.
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