Adobe could maintain its strength as an online rich-media provider despite Apple excluding Flash support from its mobile devices and Google using HTML5 in YouTube, says a new analyst report from Jefferies Co. In a conversation with eWEEK, Adobe executives suggested that the ubiquity of Flash, and the porting of Flash Player 10.1 onto smartphones running Google Android and other mobile operating systems, will help it maintain a robust presence in the rich-media platform arena.
– Adobe may have little to worry about from Googles use of HTML5 in
YouTube and Apple shunning Flash for the iPhone and iPad, according to
a new analyst report from research firm Jefferies amp; Co. That report
follows recent blogosphere buzzing over whether the lack of Flash
support for Apples ne…