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Adobe has had a rough decade? Really, I always assumed that Adobe successfully mitigated all the revenue risk by selling recurring Creative Studio/Cloud licens

Adobe has had a rough decade? Really, I always assumed that Adobe successfully mitigated all the revenue risk by selling recurring Creative Studio/Cloud licenses, and that Flash was not a big chunk of revenue anymore. I remember Steve Jobs planning to kill Adobe or at least news blog reporting such intentions.[0] Adobe stock has done pretty well over last half a decade even when compared with Google.[1] [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-wants-to-kill-adobe-2010-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-wa... [1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AADBE%2CGOOGL&ei=2jRWWIHbNdibee3Wn6AL https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AADBE%2CGOOGL&ei=2j...

bluebknight 10y ago
What I found ironic was, I had to enable flash player to see your Google finance link. I guess Flash is still alive in many places.
- cm2187 10y ago
  I don't have the feeling that google finance is live and kicking. I think it's one of those product that will disappear soon. There are lots of broken feeds like: http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGLDI&ei=Tk1WWKnmH4iUUt3vh6AL http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGLDI&ei=Tk1WWKnmH... I reported some but they did nothing about it.
  - JumpCrisscross 10y ago
    > google finance is live and kicking I work in finance. It's a last resort. It should be front page, but it was ignored for too many years. I think I see it once or twice a year, now.
    - cm2187 10y ago
      I actually went to google finance where I could get live price feed when yahoo and my bloomberg terminal had 15min delays. Now even yahoo has live feeds too.
      - inuhj 10y ago
        Yahoo finance came first and has always been better.
  - Spooky23 10y ago
    Whomever was scratching a personal itch with Google Finance at Google is probably rich enough to have people worry about such things now. I end up using my broker for charting, as most of the free ones suck.
- csomar 10y ago
  Two things here: 1. It's because Google finance is old and probably forgotten. Really answers the OP question why it's not a good idea to kill flash right now. 2. Have been trading for a while and can tell that the performance of that chart beat the hell out of any JavaScript charting tool out there. It's interesting that JS/HTML 5 is all the hype now but it's still lagging behind a 10 year old technology.
  - jayflux 10y ago
    Yeah, i do find it odd that Google finance (which is used quite a bit i believe) hasn't had any life breathed into it. I'm sure its had the same design for the last decade now
    - brianwawok 10y ago
      Doubt it makes enough money to move the needle.
  - Nanite 10y ago
    While they seemed to have abandoned Google Finance and left it in flash limbo, they do seem to be using HTML5 for stock charting whey you query google for: "company name" quote
vacri 10y ago
The last version before subscriptions came in, it was cheaper to fly return Australia -> US and purchase a copy of Photoshop, than it was to just purchase one locally here in Aus. Adobe can stand to have a rougher time of it, IMO...
- semi-extrinsic 10y ago
  In other words, someone could've made a killing selling US Photoshop on ebay?
  - chris_wot 10y ago
    Probably, and then they would have had their account pulled and a cease and desist letter sent. This is why Australians have fought hard against geoblocking, and on similar lines why SciHub is around. I have zero sympathy for Adobe.

bluebknight 10y ago

What I found ironic was, I had to enable flash player to see your Google finance link. I guess Flash is still alive in many places.

cm2187 10y ago
I don't have the feeling that google finance is live and kicking. I think it's one of those product that will disappear soon. There are lots of broken feeds like: http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGLDI&ei=Tk1WWKnmH4iUUt3vh6AL http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGLDI&ei=Tk1WWKnmH... I reported some but they did nothing about it.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago
  > google finance is live and kicking I work in finance. It's a last resort. It should be front page, but it was ignored for too many years. I think I see it once or twice a year, now.
  - cm2187 10y ago
    I actually went to google finance where I could get live price feed when yahoo and my bloomberg terminal had 15min delays. Now even yahoo has live feeds too.
    - inuhj 10y ago
      Yahoo finance came first and has always been better.
- Spooky23 10y ago
  Whomever was scratching a personal itch with Google Finance at Google is probably rich enough to have people worry about such things now. I end up using my broker for charting, as most of the free ones suck.
csomar 10y ago
Two things here: 1. It's because Google finance is old and probably forgotten. Really answers the OP question why it's not a good idea to kill flash right now. 2. Have been trading for a while and can tell that the performance of that chart beat the hell out of any JavaScript charting tool out there. It's interesting that JS/HTML 5 is all the hype now but it's still lagging behind a 10 year old technology.
- jayflux 10y ago
  Yeah, i do find it odd that Google finance (which is used quite a bit i believe) hasn't had any life breathed into it. I'm sure its had the same design for the last decade now
  - brianwawok 10y ago
    Doubt it makes enough money to move the needle.
- Nanite 10y ago
  While they seemed to have abandoned Google Finance and left it in flash limbo, they do seem to be using HTML5 for stock charting whey you query google for: "company name" quote

vacri 10y ago

The last version before subscriptions came in, it was cheaper to fly return Australia -> US and purchase a copy of Photoshop, than it was to just purchase one locally here in Aus. Adobe can stand to have a rougher time of it, IMO...

semi-extrinsic 10y ago
In other words, someone could've made a killing selling US Photoshop on ebay?
- chris_wot 10y ago
  Probably, and then they would have had their account pulled and a cease and desist letter sent. This is why Australians have fought hard against geoblocking, and on similar lines why SciHub is around. I have zero sympathy for Adobe.