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Adobe Releases Flash 11 and AIR 3

Posted by Unknown on from the is-this-what-death-sounds-like dept.

iamrmani writes "Software maker Adobe Systems has launched Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3 even as the industry is shifting to HTML 5 on the Web that lessens the reliance of developers on Flash." The Register has a bit more to say about Adobe's repositioning of Flash for games as a competetive strategy.

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  1. I like how the author by jtgarris · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is surprised that Adobe would keep releasing products as people start relying on them less. How else are they going to compete.

    1. Re:I like how the author by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They're not going to compete. HTML5 competes with the Flash plugin. This is not a revenue generator for Adobe, it's a thing that the give away to try to persuade people to buy their authoring tools. As it becomes well supported, Adobe can transition the developer tools over to targeting HTML5 as well as, then instead of, the Flash plugin. Long term, they stop having to develop Flash (which costs them money) and get to keep selling the authoring tools. What's not to like?

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