[Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop?

2005-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Central has been out for a while, and is it now fair to say its just a big flop? Just seems like it to me - not much has been added/developed for it, some bugs in it, etc. Is MM still trying to push it as a real platform for the net-connected desktop at the same time they push Flex/Flash for the

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop?

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Velevitch
In my mind, the big advantage of Central is the occasionally connected computing aspect, that is the ability to synchronisation data the next time you are able to reliably connect to a network. If you read the Flash Platform Overview paper, it indicates that Flex 2 will provider better support for

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop?

2005-10-27 Thread Mick Gow
I'd be curious to see how many people actually have central - my general thoughts are that the only real people that use it are flash developers :) I don't know of anyone that uses it other than some developers that "installed it once and had a look". On 10/28/05, Chris Velevitch <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop?

2005-10-27 Thread Count Schemula
On 10/27/05, Mick Gow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know of anyone that uses it other than some developers that > "installed it once and had a look". Hey, I resemble that comment! I don't think normal people have any clue that Central exists. Macromedia creates a lot of things and then

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop?

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Velevitch
I think the problem with Central is the solution space MM were targeting to is not the solution space it should be targeted at. It was alluded to in the marketing: occasionally connected computing, but it's not being targetted fully. Sure some changes will need to be made in some areas such as bran

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop?

2005-10-27 Thread Geoffrey Williams
TED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:16 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop? Central has been out for a while, and is it now fair to say its just a big flop? Just seems like it to me - not

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop?

2005-10-27 Thread Roy Pardi
At 8:35 PM -0400 10/27/05, Count Schemula wrote: >I don't think normal people have any clue that Central exists. > >Macromedia creates a lot of things and then lets them die. > >Remember the whole shockwave game player? Or even shockwave? Or Director >MUS? Seriously! It's kind of amazingly pathol

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Macromedia Central - is it a flop?

2005-10-27 Thread Theodore E Patrick
Central was a developer release. Sometime to innovate you have to put something out there and learn from it. There were some invaluable lessons learned from Central: 1. Player performance needed to improve an order of magnitude. 2. FileIO was important. 3. Binary data manipulation was important. 4