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I've always wondered what the web would have been now if adobe would have opened flash player and created a foundation to manage its evolution when it was at it
by boudin 6y ago
I've always wondered what the web would have been now if adobe would have opened flash player and created a foundation to manage its evolution when it was at its prime time.
Their source of revenue was the flash editor (if I'm not mistaken) so I guess it wouldn't have had that much impact on their business.
- acdha 6y agoThe real problem was that they aren’t good at platforms: the editor, debugger, runtime, etc. desperately needed a QA team but Adobe was not interested in spending money on anything that wasn’t a keynote demo. For an expensive commercial product you have to do better than that, especially since their paid “support” was basically just a reminder to email you at the next major release to speculate that the problem might be fixed and you could test to find out.
- wintorez 6y agoIt would have been great. Right now we're at a somewhat awkward situation where we are trying to make a document delivery network act as an application platform, and things are a bit more complicated than they ought to be. If Flash and Flash player were open, it could have matured into a fantastic application platform for both web and mobile and embedded devices.