If you live somewhere on planer Earth, you probably own either an iPAD, or iPOD. And if you live in Singapore, I will bet you also owned an iPHONE! For all it’s warts and blemishes, Apple’s products sell. And when Apple throws its weight behind HTML 5, many has predicted the demise of Flash.

Today, Flash may not have died, yet, but it looks to be on its way (as many developers anticipated). Adobe has just announced it is folding Flash mobile development. On top of that, its pushing for Adobe Edge (to be released in 2012) as its new HTML 5 development platform. One major tell-tale sign is when Adobe released (without warning) a specialized tool to instantly convert Flash to HTML 5 (as an unsupported beta product), you knew something is going on behind the scene. Why was such a tool even developed in the first place? Many suspect it is for Adobe to gauge the popularity of HTML5 and how many developers would be desperate enough for such a switch (even when the product is unsupported). I am guessing the number of download is overwhelming… judging by adobe’s decision to move ahead with HTML5.

By next year, you should have switched to HTML5. Even though Adobe still want you to use Air (along with Flash Builder/Flex for non-mobile browser). But will Flash Builder eventually give way to something akin to “HTML5 Builder”? We shall see.