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Adobe Is Killing Contribute, Director, and Shockwave (venturebeat.com)
Reader Krystalo writes: Adobe today announced Adobe Contribute and Adobe Director will no longer be for sale nor supported as of February 1, 2017. At the same time, Adobe is also stopping Shockwave for Mac updates and support on March 14, 2017 after the last release of the product. The reason Adobe gives for the death of Contribute and Director is simple: The company's customers are embracing "the new features and efficiencies offered by Creative Cloud." As for Shockwave, its content is made with Director, so the company is merely tying up loose ends. It's about time.
That seems right. Back in the day it seemed that Macromedia Flash was used for animations while Macromedia Shockwave was used for games.
I miss the Shockwave Machine.
Uh, Photoshop CS5 runs perfectly well on Sierra, I use it daily (along with Illustrator CS5) on 10.12.3. Sierra offers to trash installers after installation as a matter of routine. Feel free to write a Photoshop killer if you must, but not because you can't use perfectly functional software.
No, the problem is that Adobe wants to force you into their subscription model. This is not about the age of his software.
And if you think subscriptions are no big deal, there are early termination clauses for these annual subscriptions. I just got hit with a $100 credit card charge because my daughter's dingbat college professor bought into the annual plan when the class is one semester. Fine, I'll eat the cost because an agreement was entered into.
But the point is to look at the bigger picture for proprietary software and let this sink in for a minute...software with early termination fees just like your cell phone.
Close, gramps.
Macromedia, the company who had a presentation product called Director and a browser plugin called Shockwave for Director, bought Flash (and the rest of FutureSplash) in 1996.
Adobe then bought Macromedia in 2005 for $3.4 billion.
Kid-proof tablet..