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Adobe Not Worried About the Future of Flash
An anonymous reader writes "Adobe company man John Dowdell isn't worried about the future of Flash. He writes in his company blog, 'There's really no "HTML vs Flash" war. There are sure people inciting to create such a war, and individual developers may have strong practical reasons to choose one technology over another, but at corporate levels that drive strategy, all delivery channels are important Adobe territory, whether SWF or HTML or video or documents or paper or ebook or e-mag or film or packaging or whatever. Adobe profits by making it easier for creatives to reach their audiences. We're on the verge of a disruptive change that, I think, will dwarf that of the World Wide Web fifteen years ago. It was great back then when any wealthy person with a workstation in a wired environment could easily reach any creative's webpage. With these cheaper devices we'll be reaching far more people, and with pocket devices we'll be reaching them throughout the day instead of just when "logged-on." The WWW was merely a pale precursor of the excitement we're going to see, I think.' It's interesting to note that he talks about the World Wide Web in the past tense. I find it instructive as to Adobe's perspective. Personally, I'm not worried about the future of Flash either. I don't think it has one."
Flash is out of luck with Steve Jobs.
Games and 'other stuff' are better off written in Open Source langauges using Open Source tools, to run on Open Source operating systems. Enough of this proprietary shit written with only corporate greed in mind, designed to run on DRM-laden, crippled, toy operating systems like Windows. Adobe are just beating their chests because they are terrified by OSS, and just like people are leaving Photoshop in droves to pick up superior OSS tools like GIMP, they will leave Flash too. Adobe will buried alongside Microsoft and Apple.
then release Flash for the G1 already.
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Once someone ports Badgers to HTML5 Canvas, then it'll be safe to put Flash to sleep.
Corporate spokesmen are the Baghdad Bobs of capitalism: there to tell you everything is going great, there is no enemy in sight for hundreds of miles, if there is an enemy he was routed by our glorious products. Up until the moment the spokesman himself is laid off.
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Says it all...
Smivs on the intertubes!
"Flash got nearly 100% browser penetration long before YouTube existed"
Which is a polite form of saying "they've been f*cking with my browser for too long now".
Ezekiel 23:20
Except that it costs you a metric tonne of credibility, as well as most of your facebook friends. If these things are of no perceived value to you, by all means play Farmville.
I suggest you read the second half of the original post. He doesn't need to use his imagination, he just needs to re-read what he wrote originally.
Maybe he uses Internet Explorer.