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Adobe Is Finally Ending Flash Support... In 2020
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostYeah, point is that it would be a mindboggingly massive investment.
Don't forget - there's also the Flash editor from the Adobe Creative Suite. That's an expensive piece of software and would easily cover the maintenance costs. If Adobe kept people's interest in Flash, it would've kept the cash flow going.
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
Didn't they replace Flash with 'AIR' ? Well, Flash, Java, and JS/Web 2.0 have the same goal. They made the right choice. We don't really need almost similar competing technologies fragmenting the web.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostOnce smartphones and tablets started outselling desktops and laptops, Flash usage declined insanely fast. I very rarely encounter anything that requires Flash anymore.
If they worked on security, GPU acceleration, and ported it to more platforms (such as 64 bit Windows) it'd probably still be popular. I
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostAdobe added 3D to Flash, even though nobody asked for it and very few people used it. How is that a lesser investment?
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostNot really. Macromedia did all the hard work, Adobe just had to maintain it, which they did a very poor job of. Besides, Adobe added 3D to Flash, even though nobody asked for it and very few people used it. How is that a lesser investment?
Hmm so if 5% of the 2,000,000 estimated steam linux users purchased a photoshop subscription at 19.99/month that'd be errr.... 100,000 subscriptions at 19.99 a pop.
Oh, a measly $1,999,000.00 a month to support a platform. Or err.... only $23,988,000.00 a year using that metric.
Yup, you heard it here folks, 23 million dollars a year is chump change to Adobe apparently. Somebody needs to talk to their engineers about stopping snorting cocaine of teenage stripper's asses and get them to do their fscking job. (This isn't a joke, I did work at an Adobe engineers house where apparently cocaine is the currency within the house.)
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Originally posted by GI_Jack View PostIts time to Open Source the player/browser plugin for two reasons
1. it can be ported to other archectures
2. people can submit bug fixes.
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