Not in my experience! 
We have a successful mobile application built in FLEX and by the way I work in 
a very huge international company. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:jazzmatad...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:05 PM
To: users@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology

Now lets keep it real.
Flex  is irrelevant on mobile.


2013/2/28 Haissam Abdul Malak <habdulma...@ccc.com.lb>

> Enterprise apps are great with Flex.
> Mobile Apps specially almost one code based for all major platforms is 
> excellent.
> That's why we love flex.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephen at stephenjc [mailto:step...@stephenjc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:40 PM
> To: users@flex.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology
>
> I cannot wrap my head around the js/dom model. That's why we use flex 
> for our cross platform development. It just works.
> On Feb 28, 2013 9:22 AM, "Oliver Wiemer" 
> <o.wie...@audiovisuellemedien.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > we all love Flex.
> > The best code language ever.
> > All i can code in flex, i do that.
> > And for enterprise application thats always the best.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 28.02.13 15:15 schrieb "Scott Matheson" unter
> > <smathe...@intralinks.com>:
> >
> > >Hi
> > >  I am only a user of flex, I have spent 3 years of my time 
> > >building a app for a charity, and we have 5-10 year life in the 
> > >product, what I know, flex works, it is simple, it works, the good 
> > >chaps on this list are investing a lot of there time to give flex a 
> > >future, yes HTML/CSS/JS is the elephant in the room, if / when we 
> > >have quality cross-compiling we will look back and think adobe 
> > >giving flex to Apache was the best move ever
> > >
> > >We just need to give this project time
> > >
> > >Anyway that¹s my 2cents
> > >
> > >Scott
> > >
> > >
> > >On 2/28/13 8:52 AM, "Harbs" <gavha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Huh?
> > >>
> > >>You can compile MXML to AIR today. Who said anything about not 
> > >>supporting that?
> > >>
> > >>If you are talking about the Falcon Compiler (which is not 
> > >>required for compiling to AIR), the work for MXML compilation is 
> > >>currently being finished by Gordon Smith. That's near-term 
> > >>support. The HTML /JS support is a longer term goal. I've never 
> > >>seen any indication to cause your concerns.
> > >>
> > >>Harbs
> > >>
> > >>On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Terry Corbet wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Why is it that you fail to see that each time you advertize your 
> > >>>rush to cross-compiling MXML to HTML/CSS/Javascript and never 
> > >>>provide status concerning the compilation of MXML to run in the 
> > >>>AIR environment you are causing the very anxiety that we all deal with?
> > >>>You know that your employer is going to stop shipping the old 
> > >>>compiler in favor of the new compiler. You know that the Gaming 
> > >>>Guru will not let any resource be devoted to having the new 
> > >>>compiler successfully compile Flex, i.e. Spark Components.  So, 
> > >>>exactly where are we supposed to feel confident that the Apache 
> > >>>Flex project will let us maintain 'parity' [your favoirite word] 
> > >>>in regards to compiling our AIR MXML applications with the new 
> > >>>compiler?  I have every reason to believe that you will achieve 
> > >>>your objective, which is to have the Falcon work let you 
> > >>>cross-compile to the environment that you believe has future 
> > >>>possibilities, and, as long as one person is on loan one day per 
> > >>>week, to get MXML compilation working, not much reason whatsoever 
> > >>>to
> believe that on-going developoment of AIR applictions has a future.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Harui" 
> > >>> <aha...@adobe.com>
> > >>> To: <users@flex.apache.org>; <flex-us...@incubator.apache.org>
> > >>> Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM
> > >>> Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 2/27/13 9:48 PM, "Devesh Mishra" <devesh.mis...@mastek.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Hi,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that 
> > >>>>there are no big  improvements are coming in Flex. According to 
> > >>>>today's scenario, Flex is only  for desktop application and we 
> > >>>>are entering into mobile technology. So it's a  bit difficult to 
> > >>>>understand the future existence of Flex.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> If we talk from market point of view, everyone is moving 
> > >>>>towards HTML5/Android/Ios, after Adobe declaration for no 
> > >>>>support in Flash/Flex.
> > >>> Adobe did not say "no support".  Adobe is still supporting 
> > >>>Flash, and you  can still purchase Flex support contracts from Adobe.
> > >>>Adobe donated Flex to  Apache so it can continue to be developed 
> > >>>in the open.  Adobe continues to  make releases of Flash.
> > >>>
> > >>> Still, lots of people are moving to HTML5/Android/IOS, and so is 
> > >>> Apache Flex.  If you monitor the d...@flex.apache.org mailing 
> > >>> list you will
> > see
> > >>>that
> > >>> we are hard at work on trying to cross-compile MXML and 
> > >>>ActionScript to  HTML/JS/CSS which can then be run through 
> > >>>PhoneGap/Cordova to create mobile  apps.  It is still in its 
> > >>>infancy and we have lots of work ahead, but we are  making 
> > >>>progress.
> > >>>
> > >>> See [1] for more on one approach we are taking.
> > >>>
> > >>> [1]
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Alex%27s+FlexJS+Pro
> > to
> > ty
> > >>>p
> > >>>e
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Alex Harui
> > >>> Flex SDK Team
> > >>> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> > >>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
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