Comments on: Flash — Aha — Savior of the Universe http://www.realityprime.com/news/flash-aha-savior-of-the-univese Advanced Technology Research Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:20:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: avi http://www.realityprime.com/news/flash-aha-savior-of-the-univese/comment-page-1#comment-7876 avi Mon, 26 May 2008 17:20:56 +0000 http://www.realityprime.com/news/flash-aha-savior-of-the-univese#comment-7876 I think that's probably true, Yu-Kai. Flash's appeal is its ubiquity. Microsft's issue, as always. is lock-in, regardless of whatever else they offer. I don't know why they don't seem to understand that they'd be stronger if they were truly cross platform and simply had the better OS and apps to keep people loyal. The lock-in argument is one of weakness, not strength. But I think you also have to consider the iPhone's lack of Flash as a reason for Adobe to open up a bit. It's a huge world, and computers are now fast enough to suffer the extra layers of indirection to start realizing a network OS on top of the device OS -- and Flash wants to be that layer. I think that’s probably true, Yu-Kai. Flash’s appeal is its ubiquity. Microsft’s issue, as always. is lock-in, regardless of whatever else they offer. I don’t know why they don’t seem to understand that they’d be stronger if they were truly cross platform and simply had the better OS and apps to keep people loyal. The lock-in argument is one of weakness, not strength.

But I think you also have to consider the iPhone’s lack of Flash as a reason for Adobe to open up a bit. It’s a huge world, and computers are now fast enough to suffer the extra layers of indirection to start realizing a network OS on top of the device OS — and Flash wants to be that layer.

]]> By: Yu-kai Chou http://www.realityprime.com/news/flash-aha-savior-of-the-univese/comment-page-1#comment-7874 Yu-kai Chou Mon, 26 May 2008 16:34:12 +0000 http://www.realityprime.com/news/flash-aha-savior-of-the-univese#comment-7874 Thanks for the informative post! Is this move by Adobe a direct response to Microsoft's Silverlight? From what I heard, people who tried to program with Silverlight enjoy the process much thoroughly than flash, but flash's advantage is the market penetration. Adobe possibly wants to continue to hone in on this market penetration rate by making it free for everyone. What do you think? Thanks for the informative post! Is this move by Adobe a direct response to Microsoft’s Silverlight? From what I heard, people who tried to program with Silverlight enjoy the process much thoroughly than flash, but flash’s advantage is the market penetration. Adobe possibly wants to continue to hone in on this market penetration rate by making it free for everyone. What do you think?

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