That article is very interesting Kevin. I will chew on it a bit more
tomorrow, after work.
One thing that Apple issue seemed to miss was that any significant
download of pixels, no matter what the delivery language, is going to
use a similar amount of battery life. So it really had little to do with
Flash. More to do with control of the market.
I have written most of my software in C++ and I love Visual Studio 2010
but for shear ease of use, and with great results, I think Flash and Air
are brilliant and I will be using them to do my next few pieces of work.
John
On 17/09/2012 18:51, Kevin Newman wrote:
HTML5 is finally on the downslide of the gartner hype cycle's peak of
inflated expectations. So it makes sense that people are starting to
pronounce it's death. Mark Zuckerberg has caught on with his comments
about native apps vs. HTML5 from last week too.
HTML always had a place, and probably will until another document spec
supersedes it. I wouldn't bet the future of my company on it though.
I wrote about this a while ago:
http://www.unfocus.com/2011/11/09/flash-and-air-nothing-but-opportunity/
The market is splitting, and that's great. Both are growing, one is
just growing faster. BTW, FaceBook's whole play was making apps out of
web apps, and providing ways for app makers to monetize those apps
while FB gets a tax - that's why Facebook is in scramble mode, they
are trying to compete for attention against far more rapid growth from
device apps, which also happen to take a far larger tax. Its not a
short term problem because the desktop/laptop install base is so large
(same for Flash gaming), but they will hit a wall at some point, and
that's what their horrible stock numbers are about.
Kevin N.
P.S. I wrote that before I witnessed the horrible PR nightmare that
Adobe created (and still hasn't addressed). I have less confidence in
Adobe as a company than I did when I wrote that. On the technology, I
still think Flash is well positioned to be a killer multi-platform app
toolkit. I just can't say I believe Adobe will be able to execute well
enough to capitalize on it. I think they're leadership is too busy
chasing the fads of Wall Street, rather than generating their own as
any technology company must. The Adobe evangelists have caught a
terminal case of pragmatism too. Since when is technology about
pragmatism? Pft.
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