Clint Modien wrote: > I'm totally confused now. Isn't the only thing requiring a player upgrade > to 9.0 flex 2? Without auto-update turned on what is causing such a > blazing fast adoption rate?
I think it's the content. While YouTube requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or better, anyone still upgrading from v7 or previous will now get the current version, Flash Player 9. Rephrased, a site doesn't *have* to specify FP9... anytime that they specify a minimum version greater than what someone has installed, then (as of the end of June) they'll be getting FP9. MySpace going to SWF9 did increase adoption rates, but even if they have 90 million regular visitors, that's still only about three weeks' worth of normal Flash Player distribution... from what I'm told, we've been seeing five to six million successful installations per day anyway. MySpace *did* have an effect in bunching upgrade requests together, but the total Flash Player 9 audience is already far larger than the MySpace audience. There's a virtuous circle going on with Flash work now... the application developers benefit from the video sites, from the advertisers, from the newspaper infographics, from the personality sites. More on the different sociology of Adobe Flash Player 9 here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/08/linux_observati.cfm jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
