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Adobe spent years telling people the end was coming - ending Android in 2011, deprecating in 2017, and only finally EoL'ing in 2020 If that wasn't enough time

Adobe spent years telling people the end was coming - ending Android in 2011, deprecating in 2017, and only finally EoL'ing in 2020 If that wasn't enough time to move on, I don't know what to tell you :)

noduerme 4y ago
They put an undocumented kill switch in players and then disabled them remotely in the wild. Such that no bytecode can be run on any machine that took the last couple years updates. Then they sold the player rights to a company that ransoms them by offering to bundle a working player with individual critical binaries at unlisted prices. Laughably, they claimed this was ethical to prevent users from accidentally running insecure versions after they stopped patching. I can still install Basilisk and run HyperCard stacks I wrote 30 years ago, but I can't run the dozens of games I wrote in Flash. It destroyed a good chunk of my life's work. So your comment is rude. It's fine to move on and work in other languages, as I have, but to not be able to even show 80% of your portfolio because it was intentionally crippled by the company you rented the software from that you used to make it, isn't something you can move on from. It's been disastrous.
- animitronix 4y ago
  It was all Apple's fault, specifically Jobs.
- warrenm 4y ago
  >So your comment is rude. It's fine to move on and work in other languages, as I have, but to not be able to even show 80% of your portfolio because it was intentionally crippled by the company you rented the software from that you used to make it, isn't something you can move on from. It's been disastrous. It's no different than what happened when the C64 when the way of the dodo Or folks who built stuff for DOS, and never updated to Windows Technology moves on Languages and platforms get deprecated and/or die And if "80% of your portfolio" is on a now-dead platform, I'd say it speaks more to you not wanting to do something new than that you happened to build a bunch of stuff on something now dead I get that it sucks that stuff drops out of support/manufacture/etc But it happens You can be sour about it, or realize it's the nature of life, and move ahead :)

noduerme 4y ago

They put an undocumented kill switch in players and then disabled them remotely in the wild. Such that no bytecode can be run on any machine that took the last couple years updates. Then they sold the player rights to a company that ransoms them by offering to bundle a working player with individual critical binaries at unlisted prices. Laughably, they claimed this was ethical to prevent users from accidentally running insecure versions after they stopped patching. I can still install Basilisk and run HyperCard stacks I wrote 30 years ago, but I can't run the dozens of games I wrote in Flash. It destroyed a good chunk of my life's work. So your comment is rude. It's fine to move on and work in other languages, as I have, but to not be able to even show 80% of your portfolio because it was intentionally crippled by the company you rented the software from that you used to make it, isn't something you can move on from. It's been disastrous.

animitronix 4y ago
It was all Apple's fault, specifically Jobs.
warrenm 4y ago
>So your comment is rude. It's fine to move on and work in other languages, as I have, but to not be able to even show 80% of your portfolio because it was intentionally crippled by the company you rented the software from that you used to make it, isn't something you can move on from. It's been disastrous. It's no different than what happened when the C64 when the way of the dodo Or folks who built stuff for DOS, and never updated to Windows Technology moves on Languages and platforms get deprecated and/or die And if "80% of your portfolio" is on a now-dead platform, I'd say it speaks more to you not wanting to do something new than that you happened to build a bunch of stuff on something now dead I get that it sucks that stuff drops out of support/manufacture/etc But it happens You can be sour about it, or realize it's the nature of life, and move ahead :)