Apple vs Adobe Flash Quarrel Convinces Developers to Choose HTML5 over Flash? [Recent Report Says Developers Interested More in Working with HTML5 than Flash]

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Google might have delivered a few blows to Apple at Google I/O, one of them being the adoption of Flash on its Android mobile platform, but that doesn’t really make Adobe’s life any easier.

Apple has some very popular mobile products, the iPhone, the iPod and the iPad, but none of them comes with Flash support. Cupertino also has one giant App Store which inspired everyone else to build app stores of their own, and that App Store is a gold mine for various developers. And as long as Apple will not allow Flash-based apps in its highly profitable App Store, developers will certainly be a lot more interested in HTML5 too.

A recent Wall Street Journal report says that more and more programmers and web designers are considering dropping Flash as their clients want their products and websites to be compatible with the iPhone and the iPad. And who can blame them? Wouldn’t you want a piece of that App Store action too? In order to get it you’d have to sacrifice Flash and work further with HTML5.

Even if Apple will be somehow forced to offer Flash as an alternative for developers looking to create some Flash-based apps, which might not happen, by that time HTML5 will grow even more popular. Those developers currently ditching Flash will probably not return to it in a few years. Not to mention that Adobe itself is offering HTML5 support in its recent Dreamweaver version.

I am not taking Apple’s side here, I’m just stating the apparent obvious. Apple is setting a new trend in the mobile business and because it has so popular products, developers simply have to roll with it whether they like it or not. These are developers hired by others to build apps for them, of course, as independent developers creating apps for themselves could always ditch the iPhone universe and create all the apps they want in Flash for Android.

What we’re witnessing here are some of the first battles in the Flash vs HTML5 wars. We’ll certainly hear more about this conflict especially since Flash is so widely used right now and HTML5 adoption, although growing rapidly, is not yet a popular tool for web development for so many popular websites (Hulu anyone?).