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I think the point he's trying to make is that too many people who have little or no working knowledge of Flash and HTML are chiming in as "experts" (e.g. bloggers or journalists who have never worked as professional programmers before). Flash is not garbage; it has its problems, but so does Silverlight, and so does every other platform ever created.
I think that's besides the point. These developers are supposed to develop products that end users (like myself) would use and without that, there would be no point in development to begin with. That's what business is about. If you don't listen to people who have to use the damm thing, then what's the point?
All major software releases are bound to have hiccups, and this is no different,
Flash has been hiccuping since the beginning. It's been out for what? Over 10 years now?
How many more hiccups do we need to go through before they get a clue? It's still the same resource hog it was from day ONE. And if anything, it's getting even worse with even more junk to load on certain webpages. Even multi-core machines with beaucoup RAM have issues with it.
so I'm sorry but quoting an article on MacRumors isn't enough to convince me that Flash is garbage.
That's just one example I came up with. Want more?
Adobe has been treating Apple like it was the bastard stepchild from the beginning. It's never worked very well on their platform. And Linux is treated even worse. Like a non-entity that doesn't even exist. That's even more pathetic. And let's not forget 64bit and the feeble development behind that.
The fact is, whether you think all us poor Flash devs are ready to "change with the times" or not, there is still (and will continue to be) a lot of good reasons to deploy content on the Web using Flash. Not just technical reasons, mind you, but business ones as well.
Oh I don't expect Adobe to go out of business anytime soon. If anything, the complaints about it, the rejection of it on the iPad, and any intense negativity about it in the press will hopefully shine a light-bulb off their heads and they'll do something about it.
Adobe's been coasting for too many years and taking it's customers for granted. It's time they shaped up and earned their keep.
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