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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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  2. bias? by ThorGod · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The launch comes at a time when the industry is shifting from Flash and embracing HTML 5 on the Web that lessens the reliance of developers on Flash. HTML5 is gaining momentum each day as tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook are supporting it.

    To what extent is this true and to what extent is it bullying? I mean, "oh damn the competition just wont go away! even though it can't possibly win!". That's what those sentences sound like to me.

    a.) In a capitalistic society, believe it or not, competition is great! It's one of the few things that enforces sane prices and wages, and has the benefit of not being decreed by a government regulator.
    b.) Even if a technology is inferior and/or 'old' doesn't mean it's going away. Fortran, anyone?

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  3. No. It is not released! by gQuigs · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the article:
    "Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 are scheduled for release in early October. Adobe didn't give the date, but you should expect release at Adobe's annual Max conference, between 1 and 5 October."

    No comment.

  4. Re:Fighting till the end... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Flash won't die until HTML5 is:

    * Complete
    * Supported properly in all major browsers
    * Has a high level, mature and robust RIA development API (i.e. at least Flex level which is, frankly, an easy enough goal. Certain JS frameworks are making good progress but are still far less productive (development, testing, maintenance, LOC, etc.) than Flex)

    Given the history of the web, these conditions put the viability of HTML5 as a complete replacement for Flash at no sooner than 2021 -- probably even later than that.

  5. Re:Fighting till the end... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's infinitely more open than Objective-C

    What makes you say that? The Objective-C compiler (clang) is open source (UIUC, BSD-style, license). Apple's runtime is also open source (APSL), and the GNUstep project has a more portable replacement (MIT licensed). In both cases, you're using proprietary libraries (in the Flash player or Cocoa Touch0.

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