Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features • Hacker News Board

Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by MatthewPhillips » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 1:43 PM UTC

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Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by codesuela » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 1:45 PM UTC

looks like Adobe tries to squeeze every last bit out of money out of the Flash platform

Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by asto » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 1:45 PM UTC

This move is currently getting HA-HA'ed here on HN but it's a fairly decent move. Some people have no choice but to use flash (mostly game-makers). Some of them, like Zynga rake in big money. Adobe looks like they might get a piece of that action. What's to laugh at?

Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 1:53 PM UTC

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Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by pcestrada » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 1:56 PM UTC

Sounds like Adobe finally figured out how to monetize Flash. Too bad it's at the expense of their most important resources, their developers.

Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by neilmiddleton » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 2:00 PM UTC

…and how exactly are Adobe going to know what 9 percent of net revenue for a given movie is?

Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by Trollhaven » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 2:00 PM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #11

Mansyn wrote: post #9

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Thank you sir, may I have another?

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Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by overshard » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 2:03 PM UTC

I'm glad Adobe has finally taken the initiative to phase out Flash.

Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by JonoW » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 2:07 PM UTC

asto wrote: post #13

This move is currently getting HA-HA'ed here on HN but it's a fairly decent move. Some people have no choice but to use flash (mostly game-makers). Some of them, like Zynga rake in big money. Adobe looks like they might get a piece of that action. What's to laugh at?

No options? Silverlight? WebGL? Sure they may not be perfect, but for 9% of revenue, companies will consider alternatives pretty quickly

Re: Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

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Post by ceejayoz » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 2:12 PM UTC

asto wrote: post #13

This move is currently getting HA-HA'ed here on HN but it's a fairly decent move. Some people have no choice but to use flash (mostly game-makers). Some of them, like Zynga rake in big money. Adobe looks like they might get a piece of that action. What's to laugh at?

> What's to laugh at?

The fact that this is a pretty big incentive to change the situation of "some people [having] no choice but to use flash".