Hi all, Well said. Three cheers Paul! Then Mike, your comment about right brained designers and left brained developers is most descriptive, though I am not sure about exactness, being an ignorant on the subject.LOL
BTW folks this is not a crusade I started. It is just offending my logic, what marketeers do most of the time.. George --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews <p...@...> wrote: > > Mike wrote: > > It's too late, the damage is done, but I agree also FWIW. > > An Adobe VP told me about "Flex" being the open source branding, and > > "Flash" being the commercial product branding. There is no way that > > customers will figure that out. They have enough trouble understanding > > that developers are left-brained and designers are right-brained. > > > > One should not target a single brand at two classes of individuals who have > > different educations, different values, different world views, drive > > different cars and listen to different music. If you believe you know of a > > top-notch designer who is also a top-notch developer, your standards are > > too low. One cannot excel at both career paths - humans are too finite. > > > Yes, Macromedia were smart. They established Flex as a high-end serious > development system that could compete with other "serious" development > systems and distanced it from flash eye-candy. Adobe have now managed to > shift the perception of Flex from top-end to something that's used for > eye-candy frivolity with the association with flash. We all know that's > not true, but the larger companies looking at serious development wont > make the distinction between Flex for serious work and flash for > animation. I suspect it'll end up as a case study of" not what to do" in > branding lectures. > > Paul > > Mike > > ... who tries to excel as a developer and has great respect for excellent > > designers > > > > > > > >>> âYes, I can see your point. I think the two of us are the only people > >>> who > >>> > >>> think that the Flex brand is weakened by the Flash moniker.â > >>> > >>> No, there are more of us... We just arenât as vocal! > >>> > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > >
