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Nobody pays for the flash player, but maybe adobe makes a few dollars off it's $4500 Flash Media Server licenses? I'm sure Adobe is cool with killing that inco
by heyrhett 16y ago
Nobody pays for the flash player, but maybe adobe makes a few dollars off it's $4500 Flash Media Server licenses?
I'm sure Adobe is cool with killing that income stream since you wrote them this nice letter though.
- jasonlbaptiste 16y agoI've been trying to find stats on how much adobe makes off the flash media server product. Not sure on the long term viability of FMS anyway due to the adoption of HTML5 video.
- heyrhett 16y agoYeah, if it's not in their quarterly reports, it's probably secret. I know youtube uses a "pseudostreaming" trick, so they don't have to pay for FMS, and now there is also the Wowza alternative, which is cheaper. I honestly think that adobe flash video will be pervasive much longer than you might think. Do you know how to send a live video stream in HTML5, in case you wanted to make the HTML5 analog of chatroulette? Neither does anyone else. You won't see justin.tv switching from flash any time soon.
- jasonlbaptiste 16y agoIt will take a while for it to completely go away. It may never fully go away. Livestreaming is certainly one of those use cases that will be using flash for a while. It's beyond my area of expertise, but I think someone mentioned websockets in HTML5 might make it doable. That right there is a really big potential idea. Would love to see it built.