Everything about Flash

It would be an understatement to say this has been a tough week - both for those of us inside Adobe as well as for many of our developer community. In addition to the layoffs, you'd be forgiven for feeling as though we carpet bombed major changes to our developer products, In fact, it really was only two dramatic changes that directly affect our developer community: the end to the Flash Player plugin for mobile devices and televisions and the plan to donate Flex to the Apache open source foundation.

// One of the nicest point of view I've read lately on this fearsome topic //

// This is the updated original post explaining why Adobe is dumping Flash Player mobile, but Flex as well. The update clarifies a few things, but sure doesn't satisfy me. I'll leave you sole judges. //

There’s been a lot of news to digest from you guys over the past week and it culminated with the Flex news you dropped on us Friday evening, which by the way interrupted @ruedaminute’s date-night. Now that I’ve had the weekend to cool my jets and think about things there are some observations that I would like to share with you. There is a lot to cover and I’ll try to be succinct on each point but don’t yell at me if I fail. :-)

This morning ZD Net published an article stating the Adobe will cease development of Flash Player on Mobile in favor of packaging mobile applications in Adobe AIR.
The Flash Player haters quickly picked up this news and to draw attention to their blogs/tabloids started to cash on Steve Job’s name stating that he won the battle with Adobe since Steve was the one who didn’t let Flash Player on iOS.

// Everybody knows Farata Systems. Reading this post from Yakov Fain (@yfain) I feel slightly more confident //