Adobe ending Flash support for G3 Macs
If you spend any time cruising the Mac ghettos of Craigslist or eBay, you know there are plenty o’ deals and parts still available for these PowerPC workhorses. Nevertheless, Apple ended support for these gentlemen Macs years ago, so their exile by the graphics software comes as little surprise.
Adobe has announced that support for PowerPC G3 Macs will end when Flash 10.1 ships sometime before June 30, 2010. This news comes buried in a larger story about the shape and size of the next major update to the multimedia authoring and delivery “standard.”
The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release, expected in the first half of 2010, will be the last version to support Macintosh PowerPC-based G3 computers. Adobe will be discontinuing support of PowerPC-based G3 computers and will no longer provide security updates after the Flash Player 10.1 release. This unavailability is due to performance enhancements that cannot be supported on the older PowerPC architecture.”
See also: How to: Selectively enable Flash apps, animations in Safari
Sad, oh so sad. In fact, any right minded technologist will probably agree with me when I say that, if there was justice in the universe, it would be Flash whose days are numbered rather than G3 Macs—long live the PPC 750!—many of which still toil on a decade or more after they were unboxed.
Damn you, Adobe. Damn you to….
What’s your take?
via ArsTechnica
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December 12th, 2009
Your story directly contradicts your source. You say G3 support will end when Flash 10.1 ships. Adobe says Flash 10.1 will support G3 Macs, but it will be the last version to do so. In other words G3 Macs are still supported until the version AFTER 10.1 comes out, which could be more than a year later. Not much of a story there! Just Adobe being very responsible and giving a very early heads-up to G3 users.