This week Adobe announced the beginning of the end for Flash on mobile devices. Acknowledging growing support for HTML5, Adobe will focus on Adobe Air for mobile App Stores and cease development of Flash for mobile browsers.
Apple’s Siri voice technology has shifted our attention from touching screens to voice commands. This week we learned Amazon quietly moved into voice technology by acquiring Yap in September. Yap’s technology transcribes voice commands and voices messages into text. Yap shut down services on October 20.
Are we losing the scrollbar? According to Slate, scrollbars may disappearing. It seems Apple, Goggle, Facebook, and Microsoft are either removing, fading, or altering the scrollbar. It begs the question, if the scrollbar goes away what’s next, the cursor?
