Flash’s Fate: Blame Microsoft, Not Apple
Commenter Ridd make a good point about Flash over at this story by Erica Ogg on why mobile Flash failed: The real reason why Adobe is dropping Flash mobile support is not iPhone. It is Windows 8....
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Dan Frommer of SplatF weighs in on the death of mobile Flash–and thinks that Adobe is in okay shape overall: Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen isn’t a magician, but he’s proving that he’s not a dummy. Today,...
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Adobe Beefs Up Acrobat.com’s SendNow
Adobe’s Acrobat.com services don’t have a very high profile–and many don’t have much to do with Acrobat or PDF–but they include some good stuff. There’s Adobe Connect, a Web-conferencing service a la...
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In the Tech Industry, Management Change Comes Slowly
Reuters’ Alastair Sharp has published a story saying that some investors are wondering whether it’s time for a change at the top of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, which is led by Mike Lazaridis...
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With Edge, Adobe Preps Itself for the HTML5 Future
Adobe may be in no hurry to wind down its huge, aging, sometimes frustrating business built around Flash, but it isn’t dumb. It’s obvious that the future of rich Web sites–especially on phones and...
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For Adobe, Edge Represents Opportunity, Not Surrender
“Adobe Quietly Surrenders to Steve Jobs, Builds Flash Alternative.” That’s the headline on Adam Clark Estes’s article over at the Atlantic on Edge, Adobe’s new HTML5 authoring tool. It captures the...
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The Long National Mobile Flash Nightmare is Over
So it’s official: Adobe is ceasing development of Flash Player for phones and tablets: Over the past two years, we’ve delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness of...
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If you’re not sick of thinking about the end of Flash on mobile devices already, people are still writing stuff about it that’s worth reading: Adobe’s Mike Chambers gives several reasons for mobile...
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In Which I Bid Flash Adieu
For awhile now, I’ve been battling some maddeningly persistent, mysterious technical gremlins that have infested my MacBook Air. The machine would work just great. Then, without warning, it would get...
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Review: Adobe’s Ink and Slide Are Great Hardware Which Need Great Apps
People who are serious about software should make their own hardware. When that famous declaration by Alan Kay gets quoted, it’s usually in reference to ambitious computing devices such as Apple’s...
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