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Let's hope this is one more step to Flash irrelevance. I don't count the times that Flash caused me trouble, and I'll be happy to see it go away.

ecaron 15y ago
Adobe killing AIR for Linux didn't impact/slow AIR's growth in the slightest, so I would have to assume this change will also have zero impact.
- drats 15y ago
  Can't tell if you are serious. Who uses AIR? I've never seen it.
  - winthrowe 15y ago
    Grooveshark's desktop app used it. Only place I've personally seen it in the wild.
    - gcp 15y ago
      Simfy (another Spotify competitor) also uses it.
  - tbassetto 15y ago
    http://www.balsamiq.com http://www.balsamiq.com is a popular software among people doing wireframes. The Desktop version is based on AIR (and it's the only reason why I've installed AIR on my Mac).
  - pbhjpbhj 15y ago
    BBC use it for their iPlayer app (well hidden though) so I imagine the UK installation base of Air to be pretty large in comparison to other regions.
  - shawabawa 15y ago
    the League of Legends client uses it. It's also one of the buggiest game clients I've ever used...
  - firebird84 15y ago
    League of Legends still uses AIR I believe.
  - riffraff 15y ago
    tweetdeck was hugely popular and written with AIR, but I believe they went native some time ago.
    - ecaron 15y ago
      Native on Mac & Windows, Chrome-only for Linux (which just isn't the same experience as AIR offered)
  - rsynnott 15y ago
    Certain Twitter clients. That seems to be about it. :) (It's sometimes used for in-house stuff, but then what isn't?)
ZenPsycho 15y ago
I'm sure adobe will mourn all 3 of the users they'll lose by doing this.
gexla 15y ago
Yeah, most Linux users either have Flash enabled for the family and hate it or they don't install it. This is a tiny market. Nobody else will care. Linux users already didn't care. Nothing to see here.
loevborg 15y ago
I think Adobe is nuts to be so hostile to its Linux users. Surely it can't be that expensive to continue developing the old plugin? The thing Flash had going for it was its ubiquity: it worked on all (desktop) browser. Now that that's gone, this will be another good reason not to have new projects depend on Flash.
- ConceptJunkie 15y ago
  Adobe has always been this hostile to Linux users. It hasn't seemed to had much of a dent in their success. Meanwhile, Flash is dead, it just hasn't stopped kicking yet. It's been a long decade, but many people will be cheering it and kicking the corpse when it finally shuffles off to the great /dev/null in the sky.

ecaron 15y ago

Adobe killing AIR for Linux didn't impact/slow AIR's growth in the slightest, so I would have to assume this change will also have zero impact.

drats 15y ago
Can't tell if you are serious. Who uses AIR? I've never seen it.
- winthrowe 15y ago
  Grooveshark's desktop app used it. Only place I've personally seen it in the wild.
  - gcp 15y ago
    Simfy (another Spotify competitor) also uses it.
- tbassetto 15y ago
  http://www.balsamiq.com http://www.balsamiq.com is a popular software among people doing wireframes. The Desktop version is based on AIR (and it's the only reason why I've installed AIR on my Mac).
- pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  BBC use it for their iPlayer app (well hidden though) so I imagine the UK installation base of Air to be pretty large in comparison to other regions.
- shawabawa 15y ago
  the League of Legends client uses it. It's also one of the buggiest game clients I've ever used...
- firebird84 15y ago
  League of Legends still uses AIR I believe.
- riffraff 15y ago
  tweetdeck was hugely popular and written with AIR, but I believe they went native some time ago.
  - ecaron 15y ago
    Native on Mac & Windows, Chrome-only for Linux (which just isn't the same experience as AIR offered)
- rsynnott 15y ago
  Certain Twitter clients. That seems to be about it. :) (It's sometimes used for in-house stuff, but then what isn't?)

ZenPsycho 15y ago

I'm sure adobe will mourn all 3 of the users they'll lose by doing this.

gexla 15y ago

Yeah, most Linux users either have Flash enabled for the family and hate it or they don't install it. This is a tiny market. Nobody else will care. Linux users already didn't care. Nothing to see here.

loevborg 15y ago

I think Adobe is nuts to be so hostile to its Linux users. Surely it can't be that expensive to continue developing the old plugin? The thing Flash had going for it was its ubiquity: it worked on all (desktop) browser. Now that that's gone, this will be another good reason not to have new projects depend on Flash.

ConceptJunkie 15y ago
Adobe has always been this hostile to Linux users. It hasn't seemed to had much of a dent in their success. Meanwhile, Flash is dead, it just hasn't stopped kicking yet. It's been a long decade, but many people will be cheering it and kicking the corpse when it finally shuffles off to the great /dev/null in the sky.