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Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player
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Re: Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player
#22To quote Bill Hicks - 'So long, lizard scum!'
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
"But who uses firefox these days anyways?" I am writing this reply from within Firefox.
Okay thanks for the downvote, astine. I was making a general point about its market share http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/chrome-vs-firefox-g...
I didn't downvote you. But you should be aware that Firefox is still a substantial platform and it's market-share isn't shrinking very rapidly.
Re: Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player
#24So, what does flash actually run on these days? Windows desktop PCs & laptops, on Mac desktops & laptops (for how much longer?) and that's about it. Well , looks like everyone should sharpen up those JS skills.
Well, the flash compiles to iOS binaries and I know at least one successful company who saved a ton because they didn't need a Cocoa programmer.
It seems that their strategy is to depreciate Flash Player and focus on compiling for js/iOS/whatever.
Re: Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player
#25Thats a huge F* Y to a large customer base.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay thanks for the downvote, astine. I was making a general point about its market share http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/chrome-vs-firefox-g...
I didn't downvote you. But you should be aware that Firefox is still a substantial platform and it's market-share isn't shrinking very rapidly.
Ok. Sorry.
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#27I cannot see how they can be serious about Flash if they are going to ignore Linux. It makes sense from Adobe's point of view, because the adoption on Linux is minimal, but for someone creating content on flash (for example - for video, games, or even some old school websites), this is just making it harder. Now these content creators have to worry about their clients on Linux platform. Adobe might as well say that F…
Flash on linux has always been bugging and CPU inefficient..
Yes, but if this is an admit of defeat by Adobe's engineering (like how to some extent you can say it was on Tablet/phone platform), it just is a bad sign for them.
What as a consumer of flash platform I need form Adobe is clarity and commitment. Today I see it has gone another step backward. Just reinforces the public opinion of wanting to move away from Flash even more.
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#28Been working in flash since version 2 and years ago I wrote a 3d engine in flash mx by duplicating and scaling right angled triangles to draw all the polygons. Professionally, I am often the person who recommends what technologies get used when a site gets made. And I very much doubt with this recent news from adobe that I will bother to use flash for a commercial project ever again. Especially given what you can get…
That's nice of you, but honestly I doubt this will have a very big impact. Flash support has been poor on Linux for a very long time. For example, 64-bit Linux desktops have been popular for most of the last decade, and I'm not sure there's ever been an official 64-bit release. Sure, it's been possible to get it working, but it's a hassle. The poor Linux support is one of the main reasons so many Linux users dislike…
FYI: Flash for 64bit linux has existed for a while now. The first release was sometime around the financial crisi, I think october of 2008.
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#29Thats a huge F * Y to a large customer base.
If only wishing made it so. I would love it if that was the case but sadly linux users running firefox, epiphany, etc are not a large base of anything and certainly not a large paying customer base....
Re: Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player
#30So, what does flash actually run on these days? Windows desktop PCs & laptops, on Mac desktops & laptops (for how much longer?) and that's about it. Well , looks like everyone should sharpen up those JS skills.
You do realize that those clients represent ~89% of all web usage, right?
That may well be true right now but of course we are in a time of transition right now and Adobe seems to be burning rather too many bridges.
If adobe wanted their runtime to survive (I'm not sure they do) they would be showing commitment to supporting their runtime in as many places as possible.
Right now the only place it really runs well is on Windows which means they are quite firmly shackled to Microsoft and it's not even clear that MS see flash as part of their vision for their products.