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I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

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Re: I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

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Have you seen any good examples of iOS apps made from HTML5 with PhoneGap that are actually good?

There's a variety of examples here: http://www.phonegap.com/apps I'm also a fan of the Travelocity Android app, which was built with PhoneGap.

None of those are actually any good. I installed the Travelocity app, and after fighting with the keyboard to select the airport from a dropdown, I got a javascript error that rendered the app useless.

PhoneGap does not make good apps.

Re: I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

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Oh. HN/AMA, long time coming I'd say.

Q: Say I have a product or a service that I think might be a very good fit for Adobe, including a realistic, well thought out business side of things. Is there a way to pitch it to the people of your position if I have absolutely no connections in Adobe?

This is a hypothetical question, just trying to understand options for seeding initial acquisition interest. Thanks.

Re: I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a variety of examples here: http://www.phonegap.com/apps I'm also a fan of the Travelocity Android app, which was built with PhoneGap.

None of those are actually any good. I installed the Travelocity app, and after fighting with the keyboard to select the airport from a dropdown, I got a javascript error that rendered the app useless. PhoneGap does not make good apps.

Phonegap has nothing to do with form inputs, and is used to access native phone functionality (camera, address book, location, device information etc).

I'm building mobile app with HTML5/CSS3/Backbone.js/PhoneGap and it's an excellent stack that allows you to build native-like apps for multiple OS's. Everyone I've demo'd the app to has no idea it's not written in Obj-C..

Re: I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

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I'm a lead developer at a company that creates highly-specialized training tools using Flash. We have an enormous library of content built over the last 10 years that we intend to support into the future. Adobe seems to be considering HTML5 as an alternative/addition to the Flash Player. There's a lot of conflict in the industry about Flash/HTML5, and Adobe is appeasing both sides by continuing to develop the Flash P…

Unfortunately I don't have the detail on our technical roadmap to give this the answer it deserves. I'll see if I can get someone from the Flash team to address this...

Re: I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

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I'm a lead developer at a company that creates highly-specialized training tools using Flash. We have an enormous library of content built over the last 10 years that we intend to support into the future. Adobe seems to be considering HTML5 as an alternative/addition to the Flash Player. There's a lot of conflict in the industry about Flash/HTML5, and Adobe is appeasing both sides by continuing to develop the Flash P…

Unfortunately I don't have the detail on our technical roadmap to give this the answer it deserves. I'll see if I can get someone from the Flash team to address this...

Thank you.

I have an email address in my profile if you (or anyone on the Flash team — Senocular, perhaps?) would like to take this conversation private. But I'm sure all the people up-voting my question would absolutely love an official, public answer.

And to clarify: I don't mean to imply that I think the Flash Player is going away. I'm just hopefully awaiting the day that my existing Flash-made content can run beautifully on the iPad and Win 8 Metro. Platform independence was the ideal that led me to choose Flash, and I'm excited about this ideal continuing into the future.

I just need to be sure that the processes I'm using today won't limit my options. My ever-growing library of resources — the result of a decade of hard work — depends on this.

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