Oops, wrong link... here it is, Top tech CEOs advocate Flash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CwI227m-hs
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Stephane Beladaci <adobeflexengin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:07 AM, <f...@dfguy.us> wrote: >> Keep in mind though that Adobe is still investing in flash and air. They are >> just focused on gaming. > > I agree, this is one of the strategic moves I applauded Adobe for. > There are very specific strategic interest in this focus on gaming: > > 1/ it keeps the development team focused, Adobe is drastically > invested in India based human resources and I have exposed both my > concerns and the result of my research about that. Based on the > education system in India, it seems that you simply cannot maintain a > developing team performant for product based development. Services, > yes. Cisco, yes. VMware, definitely. DirectTV, HBO, Adobe, Disney, > Apple... forget it! I bet you most highly performing professional you > know from those companies are second generation. By having a highly > creative team in SF, California, or even Eastern Europe and a highly > efficient technical team in India focused on clearly defined features, > it seems they have been able to deliver. > > 2/ simply put, if it is good enough for games, it is good enough for > anything! you can't scam the world about Flash performance when built > for gaming, it was so easy to do so when it was built for banner ads., > > 3/ games and desktop video are more viral and spread faster and > quicker than anything else, Adobe focused on those two, here is our > guarantee to keep above 95%browser penetration and near ubiquity > across platform and OS. You can tell anything b*tching about Flash > "have you watched the Olympics? Not the last? What about the before > the last? Ok, either way it does not matter what your device was, it > is was Flash, Flex, AIR, AS3 and zero HTML5". Same with Angry Bird, > how long did it take Google and Rivo? LOL still last week I could not > play without Flash outside of Chrome. > >> There probably would be a mobile version if not for the fragmentation in the >> market from iOS, causing them to drop off of it. > > I do not think so, out f the top 10 multinationals in the mobile > industry, 9 committed to dedicate resources and have their engineers > work hand in hand with Adobe's engineer to "optimize and accelerate > Flash Player and AIR for mobile platforms and chipsets", and bring > that ecosystem to their mobile devices "because you simply cannot have > the full web experience on mobile devices, without Flash". I am not > saying it, the CEOs of Google, ARM, Motorola, HTC, Intel, NVIDIA, > Palm, QUALCOMM, RIM, Broadcom, DoCoMo, and STMicroelectronics are. On > cam. Google HTML5 evangelists should remember those words from their > CEO Eric Schmidt: "We need Flash in order to show off the best of > applications available on the web. The Open Screen Project is the next > step in the evolution of Flash". > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt3hTGpfrSE > > So, Adobe did not drop Flash on Android because of browser > fragmentation, it killed it because the Open Screen Project was about > to put Apple to shame and have its sale plummet if Jobs persisted in > not supporting Flash. So, I believe and hope to be able to prove soon > that Jobs coerced Adobe to kill Flash Player, in exchange of what > Apple made AIR the rockstar of the iOS. My problem with that is 1/ > pure plain conspiracy, 2/ hijack free open business to walled taxed > proprietary fascist system, 3/ it is racketeering. > > >> I think that it's correct to think that maintaining an open source VM would >> be a lot of work, and keep in mind that just because it's open source >> doesn't > mean it will be runnable on iOS, unless it's based on javascript >> somehow. I think flexjs is set up to compile down as to JavaScript in a >> basic fashion. > > How many billion and decades is it going to take for a consensus about > the fact that JS will never be capable of competing with app stores? > It cannot be entirely, fully open source. It cannot have its > implementation left freely to the browsers or OS. It has to have a > proprietary component that allows us to keep some level of control. > > Remember Eric Schmidt "Open Screen Project is the next step in the > evolution of Flash", not "HTML5 open source standard in the next step > in the evolution of Flash". Well, as I said before Adobe abandoned the > Open Screen Project trademarks with USPTO, so I snatched them with the > intend to take it where Adobe left it, and all the way this time. > > -Stephane
