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Some of it is accurate but some of it sounds like an ignorant child fan-boy ravaging against the PS3. First, Adobe's bosom buddy isn't Microsoft. Microsoft cr
by watty 16y ago
Some of it is accurate but some of it sounds like an ignorant child fan-boy ravaging against the PS3.
First, Adobe's bosom buddy isn't Microsoft. Microsoft created a direct competitor to Flash called Silverlight. Adobe didn't intentionally make Flash 10 slower on your computer than Flash 9, just as nVIDIA's latest driver didn't intentionally break my Starcraft 2. Adobe will work with any platform to get Flash running.
I believe Adobe's developers are incompetent. They had a product leading rich content on the web and failed to "finish". All they had to do was make it stable across all operating systems (how many years have they had?). Adobe failed but cursing the technology to the grave seems immature considering what advancements we've made because of it. Like it or not HTML5 cannot completely replace Flash and going backwards in technology will not happen.
"We should be rejoicing at their death because they represent the old internet. The closed fucked up internet that ate people's productivity and innovation" -- seriously, Flash ate productivity and innovation? Did you SEE the web 10 years ago? Why is this getting upvoted?
- yosho 16y agooh c'mon, the post was hilarious. I think the HN community is a little too serious sometimes. I definitely got a chuckle or two reading this. And while not entirely accurate, I think the general points still remain valid. The HN community reminds me of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, anyone know what I'm talking about?
- lhorie 16y agoI think the general points have already been repeated to death elsewhere: "flash sucks", "working with proprietary buggy APIs sucks", "filling a post with swearwords makes me sooo alpha male", etc, etc. Guys, we got the point the first 5 million times. Can we move along?
- watty 16y agoI'm really not a serious guy... I thought it was a funny article too (I chuckled once or twice). My "serious" response was because it was a "serious" (non-satire) post... I would have had a funny response if it was from The Onion.