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I am a flash devoleper. Have been an ardent flash supporter for the past 7 years, but sadly, at this point, even i have to admit, it's Game Over. Adobe fucked u

I am a flash devoleper. Have been an ardent flash supporter for the past 7 years, but sadly, at this point, even i have to admit, it's Game Over. Adobe fucked up. Over, and over and over again. They had everything going for them, a large and and extremely smart, devoted community, a very rich and powerful authoring platform, and ,most importantly,ubiquity, but they got complacent, deluded by their own hype. They failed to make flash better, and they failed to make AIR better. At this point, they are just shooting a dead horse in the face. This is an inexplicable move, the exodus has already begin. This then is going to be the final warning alarm before the train leaves the station. There will be few who can risk getting left behind now.It's over.

brico 15y ago
No, it's not over. Not yet. I think only a small percentage of developers make $50k / year per game/app. And Stage3 is way ahead of what one day hopefully WebGL will offer. There's no way (at the moment) of producing the same quality application in HTML5/js with the same effort you need for Flash. Mozilla released their cute browserQuest game yesterday, something "Realm of the Mad God" did 2+ years ago in Flash. HTML5 is very likely to be the future but there's no way they can compete with Flash at least in the areas of Games (and Audio) at the moment..
- dugmartin 15y ago
  Correct. Audio support is one of the big features what is keeping me on Flash. This is a great rundown on the depressing state of audio support in HTML5: http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audio http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audi...