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"We publish the specifications for Flash — meaning anyone can make their own Flash player. Yet, Adobe Flash technology remains the market leader because of the
by misuba 16y ago
"We publish the specifications for Flash — meaning anyone can make their own Flash player. Yet, Adobe Flash technology remains the market leader because of the constant creativity and technical innovation of our employees."
Read: our player remains the only viable one because we keep moving the goalposts on everyone else.
- bbatsell 16y agoAlso: because they're lying — they don't publish the full Flash spec. Any alternate Flash implementation simply doesn't work on video sites with encrypted streams, which means it will never gain traction.
- misuba 16y agoOddly, such a Flash player would probably do fine on major mobile platforms.
- WiseWeasel 16y agoIt's the latest build of the runtime they need to open up, not the file format spec.