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I'm always amazed that Adobe just let Flash go without a fight. For a while they practically owned the "web development platform". It's as if Microsoft decided
by stickfigure 7y ago
I'm always amazed that Adobe just let Flash go without a fight. For a while they practically owned the "web development platform". It's as if Microsoft decided to stop developing Windows and said "eh, just install Linux".
Don't get me wrong - I'm very glad we're all working in HTML5/Javascript/etc today and not ActionScript. And it would have required a herculean effort by Adobe to fix all of Flash's issues - probably a total rewrite of everything. But it's a lot easier to rewrite software than rebuild a giant community of developers.
From a strict business game theory perspective, it seems like Adobe really screwed this one up.
- baddox 7y agoWithout a fight? My recollection is that it died an extremely slow, prolonged death.
- Marazan 7y agoThe thing they have up without a fight was Flex, their Rich Internet Application dev framework. When they abandoned support for it they killed the careers of thousands of developers and removed their chance of dominating web app development. Flex was miles ahead of what HTML 5 was producing at the time, if they had focused on getting the Flex compiler to output Javascript we would be living in a world where Adobe was synonymous with Web Dev.