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This is epic, and I don't think everyone realizes what this means. Developers will be able to just... export. The revenue model for Flash games used to be: free

This is epic, and I don't think everyone realizes what this means. Developers will be able to just... export. The revenue model for Flash games used to be: free + advertising. With this move, those same games can be released on the app store and actually charge money, or fall back to the advertising model. Its a simple way for developers to cash in. The funny thing, and this is what makes very little sense, is why did Adobe do this at all? There's no doubt that little feature cost them some serious cash, and for what? To make Apple rich?

allenp 17y ago
I'm sure Adobe's motivation is to make money selling licenses to software developers. If I remember it is about $700/seat for this software. In terms of their cost, it would make sense that Apple did some of the heavy lifting on this as part of an agreement to keep Flash off their devices. Unity is another example of a company doing this same thing and making money at it too.
- eob 17y ago
  I'll second that. Adobe wants to become an alternative platform for the iPhone. Right now it's Objective-C or the highway. I can't stand JavaScript (and therefore ActionScript) but, as an iPhone developer, watching this video made me think, "gosh, I should start learning flash". Objective-C is a nice language once you get used to it, but I can't imagine that it could compete against Flash in animation-heavy programming tasks.
  - cakesy 17y ago
    No it isnt', there are plenty of languages you can program the iphone in. Straight off Apple supports C. Then a lot of people have added support for other languages. All these have been advertised on here.
    - mahmud 17y ago
      For the love of God, submit a link to the Apple resources on iPhone development in C. "Objective"-less, good ole C.
      - eob 17y ago
        Haha yeah seriously. That's kind of a silly rebuttal :p
bemmu 17y ago
Not only that, but since those devs get their Flash apps distributed to portal sites, they can easily advertise the iPhone version inside their games. I'm quite sure a link to buy the app for your phone will be much more compelling than a random interstitial ad.
dpcan 17y ago
They had to come up with SOME reason for folks like me to upgrade from CS4 to CS5. CS4 is already so feature-rich I probably never would have upgraded. Add this little gem, and well, here's my $400-$700. Done.

allenp 17y ago

I'm sure Adobe's motivation is to make money selling licenses to software developers. If I remember it is about $700/seat for this software. In terms of their cost, it would make sense that Apple did some of the heavy lifting on this as part of an agreement to keep Flash off their devices. Unity is another example of a company doing this same thing and making money at it too.

eob 17y ago
I'll second that. Adobe wants to become an alternative platform for the iPhone. Right now it's Objective-C or the highway. I can't stand JavaScript (and therefore ActionScript) but, as an iPhone developer, watching this video made me think, "gosh, I should start learning flash". Objective-C is a nice language once you get used to it, but I can't imagine that it could compete against Flash in animation-heavy programming tasks.
- cakesy 17y ago
  No it isnt', there are plenty of languages you can program the iphone in. Straight off Apple supports C. Then a lot of people have added support for other languages. All these have been advertised on here.
  - mahmud 17y ago
    For the love of God, submit a link to the Apple resources on iPhone development in C. "Objective"-less, good ole C.
    - eob 17y ago
      Haha yeah seriously. That's kind of a silly rebuttal :p

bemmu 17y ago

Not only that, but since those devs get their Flash apps distributed to portal sites, they can easily advertise the iPhone version inside their games. I'm quite sure a link to buy the app for your phone will be much more compelling than a random interstitial ad.

dpcan 17y ago

They had to come up with SOME reason for folks like me to upgrade from CS4 to CS5. CS4 is already so feature-rich I probably never would have upgraded. Add this little gem, and well, here's my $400-$700. Done.