In a recent interview in the New York Times, Google’s lead engineer behind Android has delivered a blow to Apple by announcing that the next Android implementation (2.2) will include support for Adobe’s Flash format.  Apple’s firmly reluctant stance to embrace the Flash platform has constantly been met with widespread criticism and disfavour, with users longing for the ability to stream video and music from Flash-powered web applications.  Whether the plugin will be pre-installed or an optional update, Google feels that this will raise the image of the growing mobile platform.

Despite all of this however, Google has never been an outward supported of Adobe’s Flash, in fact, quite the opposite.  And they are not alone.  They join the coalition of Apple, Microsoft, Opera, and Mozilla in an ongoing battle to oust the internet of reliance on Flash, by working on solutions in HTML, CSS, and technologies such as WebGL, O3D, and JavaScript in order to reproduce (and improve on) the abilities of Flash.

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