If the player works on Mac OS 9 as well as X and Windows 2k as well as XP and half a dozen different flavors of vista that are really going to complicate whether a program runs or not in the present and near future for those versions, that's really at least 5 platforms and potentially up to about a dozen depending on what features you're talking about. It's not as good as html, but it's better than everything else in that regard, and the os makers, especially ms are really complicating matters with their incompatabilities.
Even though the linux audience is smaller than mac and win, and even though it's more work, it's certainly worth the admittedly disproportional ammount of effort that it takes to keep it up to date with the others, but just covering the two companies different OS's is significant if it does this while adding these new binary level features without ending up with a lot of bugs and version incompatabilities.
The thing I would like to stress is not to drop os9 and win2k from the testing pool when the temptation shows up to do so. MS and Apple have plenty of reason to force folk to upgrade, but it's strongly in Adobe's best interest not to, because it has the potential to remain the one ubiquitous platform other than html, whatever the timetable.
-Cort
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