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I'm an Adobe Flash fanboy, but even I'm starting to become pro HTML5 for rich media. I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competi

by pippy 15y ago

I'm an Adobe Flash fanboy, but even I'm starting to become pro HTML5 for rich media. I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase. This 9% completely changes the distribution model. Previously when you made a swf, it's yours to keep and do as you want. You paid for the tools to make it, in the same way you pay for a hammer. Now you're being charged for running the swf in certain ways, which will make policing it hard, scare off new developers and cause pointless lawsuits.

Zirro 15y ago
"I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase." I think Adobe is currently a divided company. Part of it want to remain with Flash and view HTML5 as a competitior, while the other part is into HTML5 and see it as the future. Adobe makes their money from development tools, after all. The technology used to present the content is less important as long as people use their tools, even if Flash player gave them a sort-of monopoly on it's creation.
- radley 15y ago
  I don't see a division between Flash & HTML. I see it as a division between their legacy as a creative platform vs. their focus on enterprise SaaS.
  - marshray 15y ago
    I see it as a bunch of MBAs hearing of Facebook's user base, Zynga's Flash games, and Apple's app store revenue and being driven mad with jealousy and using the term "uncaptured revenue" to convince themselves that this course of action is right. Of course that's silly and I'm revealing my biases here a little, but sometimes this degree of cynicism turns out to be right.
    - novalis 15y ago
      A lot of times.
eurleif 15y ago
>I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase. Milking it while there's still something to milk?

by pippy 15y ago

Zirro 15y ago

"I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase." I think Adobe is currently a divided company. Part of it want to remain with Flash and view HTML5 as a competitior, while the other part is into HTML5 and see it as the future. Adobe makes their money from development tools, after all. The technology used to present the content is less important as long as people use their tools, even if Flash player gave them a sort-of monopoly on it's creation.

radley 15y ago
I don't see a division between Flash & HTML. I see it as a division between their legacy as a creative platform vs. their focus on enterprise SaaS.
- marshray 15y ago
  I see it as a bunch of MBAs hearing of Facebook's user base, Zynga's Flash games, and Apple's app store revenue and being driven mad with jealousy and using the term "uncaptured revenue" to convince themselves that this course of action is right. Of course that's silly and I'm revealing my biases here a little, but sometimes this degree of cynicism turns out to be right.
  - novalis 15y ago
    A lot of times.

eurleif 15y ago

>I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase. Milking it while there's still something to milk?