I thought that this response showed the kind of class that we've come to expect from Adobe. http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/04/moving_forward.html <http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/04/moving_forward.html>
-TH --- In [email protected], Oleg Sivokon <olegsivo...@...> wrote: > > I've got this same link from my friend, and it's funny how it serves the > facts... well, flash was in fact the first to use h.264 codec for video on > the web (could be that some other existed before, but the HTML5 wasn't the > first, that's for sure), and it does use hardware rendering to display that > on Windows. It is true it uses pure CPU rendering on Macs and both sides > blame it on poor cooperation of the other side. I think, maybe one valid > point that he makes is that Adobe didn't invest to much into mobile market > until very recently... and, to be honest, flash rendering may be more > optimized... like using platform available graphics tools - be it DirectX or > OpenGL. It is also true that flash is kind of stuck in it's development... > well, the language hadn't seen any significant change in years... > But I don't think that what Apple cares about is how flash performs... not > is it at all familiar with the situation around the product... For example I > have Adobe tools to develop for flash on my Windows installation, but on > Linux I have only non-Adobe tools, which is more by accident, but, anyway, > this kind of contradicts what he says about non openess of the platform. > > I also think that the main profit from banning other popular development > tools like .NET and Java from Macs Apple may hope for good revenues from > selling their development tools... Think about that due to iProducts > popularity the popularity of Obj-C grew a lot. It was a marginal language in > terms of penetration until iPhone... So, they may hope to build a community > of developers, who would develop in this language and thus became dependent > on Apple's tools and the entire ecosystem... well, just like there's a lot > of C# programmers in the world, not because it's the best language ever, but > because of the demand. > > I think that Mac world sees the surrounding world from the entrenchment > level, it's like "after all those years!" they are going to win one > marketing war. They won't think about that their "victory" may turn into > much larger loss on a general scale. Like, what good will come out of > promoting obsolete technologies like HTML and JavaScript? And that's after > it's been proven many times that the disadvantages are inherent to the > technology and it is probably seeing it's last years... Well, for me going > back to making web apps in HTML and JavaScript would be like dark ages > comparing to any technology, not necessarily Flash, that offers compiled > language and better integration with the native API... > > There may be to many marketing factors involved, of which I have little > knowledge... and this may sound out of place... but, what would be if Abobe > have cooperated with projects like HaXe and GNash? Or, offer to download the > SWFTools' AS3 compiler along with Flex / Flash Builder? Or, at least bring > their existence to the public attention somehow. > What I'm saying is, this will not be a turning point in this pure battle of > commercial interests, but, maybe it's a good time to put the plans of world > domination aside and invest a bit more in the technical aspect of things? >
