My guess is that the next UI paradigm (in this context, at least) will not be developed in the kind of environment in which Adobe developers work, but in some small shop where people are free to create lean code nearly from scratch.
Apple's success has come from making it easy and intuitive for the end user, implementing solutions that are elegant in their simplicity. Those words don't describe Flash, Flex, Air or any other Adobe product. I'm not knocking their stuff (I use quite a bit of it), but since we're talking paradigms, the paradigm of Adobe developers is more closely aligned with the way Microsoft developers work than the way Apple developers work. And you don't have to look any farther for proof than Adobe's website, where there are notes everywhere about their _plans_ for OS X compatibility. It's like translating the nuances of Chinese poetry into English. If you aren't multilingual from birth, pick a language to master and accept that your second, third, fourth languages will be sub-optimal. People talk about this being a "war," but it doesn't have to be. That's the paradigm that must change before consistent progress can be made. The existence of cows does not depend on the non-existence of horses. If there's a war here, it should be a war of functionality against chaos. Pick a platform and program for it, and allow for the coexistence of other paradigms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30366 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
