Not sure where you got this information from. I have worked for a fortune 500 company and them, including their other fortune 500 clients all used flash. In hollywood flash is the standard for 2D animation, in video games, flash is used for over 75% of the interfaces (UI). In fact if technology managers have previous experience working with flash they would rather continue to use flash for several reasons. First it is far cheaper to develop in then javascript, while it is true the IDEs need to be purchased this is a relatively trivial cost compared to the QA that is required, not to mention the security model for flash is far superior then javascript. I personally would be interested in the percentage of enterprise users that actually use the flash API as opposed to direct consumption rates by all developers which could be thrown off by trivial applications and widgets such as store finders etc. It far more difficult to develop in javascript, it is untyped and its OOP is encapsulated functions.
The main issue I think is that the reason this API even exists (the initial code was acquired by Google) was due to hacking, the same reason the Javascript API came into existence. If a full depreciation actually happens, the same thing will occur again, except Google will have a much harder time enforcing the controls on copyrights. The flash API assured that rogue Google flash apps were less likely to occur. This all might be moot if in three years no one is using flash, but much of the debates I am hearing now are actually identical to the ones I heard when flash was initially becoming popular, the only difference is now there is things like Video Tag, and Canvas Tag being thrown into the debate. Ironically, one of the biggest supporters of flash is Google, they are assuring its life by building it right into the chrome browser. In the words of Winston Churchill Flash is, "The worst except for everyone else who has tried." Jonathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-api-for-flash/-/5f2LIY9QI2UJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en.
