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Futility? The whole issue with Flash right now is that they do have market share, because they're the only one in the market. Either something has Flash (desk

by Qz 16y ago

Futility? The whole issue with Flash right now is that they do have market share, because they're the only one in the market. Either something has Flash (desktops, possibly Android), or it doesn't. And the non-Flash platforms are currently missing out on a significant portion of web content. So the idea that browser plugin as a 'futile' way of building market share seems like nonsense to me.

reitzensteinm 16y ago
What I'm saying is that building a competing platform (with, for example, 3d acceleration) is futile not for technical reasons, but because you've got the mother of all chicken and egg problems trying to convince both end users and developers to use the platform. O3D was already superior to Flash for making games, with I'm assuming less than 10 man years invested. Haxe is a superior compiler to Adobe's command line mxmlc, and it's written by one guy. If gaining traction wasn't so hard, I'm certain Flash would be in serious trouble (the Flash IDE being the only thing saving it).