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Being a video editor, that was my first thought too.

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Whatever works for you. I'll stick with Apple's vision of the future of video editing. I've owned and used Premiere, Media Composer and FCP 7, and my choice for editing broadcast and commercial video is now exclusively FCP X.

You're doing episodic work?

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How? Flash-enabled devices (Android) sell way better.

Flash on Android is an awful experience.... thus Adobe moving away from Flash.
 
No kidding. The first thing I thought of was Photoshop.

First thing I thought of was a person capable of leading teams of designers and developers, and making them build quality software that makes people buy more Apple devices.

You don't hire into that position because someone has experience with Flash, or Photoshop, or whatever software. You hire someone because you think he or she is capable of leading software development teams. What software these teams are working on is secondary.
 
An alternative to Creative Suite is greatly needed. Adobe apps have great tecnological content, but are hostile to the Mac work environment: sluggish, with an alien user interface, foolishly expensive. I hope this is a sign of competition arising.

Sluggish?? I use Adobe apps all day long, I wouldn't call them particularly sluggish (provided you have enough RAM, that is). Bear in mind that many of the Adobe apps deal with huge and/or many files, and 16/32 bit color spaces, those are hard on a system. I've used most of Apple's apps and the Adobe apps still blow them away, Lightroom is far better on the whole than Aperture, and After Effects is far better than Motion. Final Cut Pro is a good app but is also really backwards in a lot of ways (like the horrible support for advanced text features for years).

And the "alien" interface is actually an advantage when you have to switch back and forth between platforms, I can (if need be) open my Mac Adobe projects on a Windows machine and pick right up where I left off without needing to know anything about Windows, or vice-versa. I've got a few nitpicks with Adobe's interface, but Apple's also got some goofy UI, their pro apps really aren't particularly "Mac-like" anyway.
 
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Check out TechCrunch's cloud-based take on it - that also makes a bit more sense of him reporting under Mansfield.

Yeah, this makes the most sense.

After I first read the AllThingsD quote, I was worried Apple didn't have a more senior (and loyal) executive internally to be the liaison between hardware and software.

However, this guy basically gave up being Adobe's next CEO for this lower level Apple position. It makes sense for him to be working on future "change-the-world" products with Mansfield.

Apple needs all the help with its cloud services it can get.
 
Sluggish?? I use Adobe apps all day long, I wouldn't call them particularly sluggish (provided you have enough RAM, that is).

Provided I had enough RAM I could run just about anything. If I could do the same amount of work I do on Adobe Apps on another platform/app with more ease and less RAM then that is called efficiency and Adobe would be considered "sluggish".
 
First thing I thought of was a person capable of leading teams of designers and developers, and making them build quality software that makes people buy more Apple devices.

You don't hire into that position because someone has experience with Flash, or Photoshop, or whatever software. You hire someone because you think he or she is capable of leading software development teams. What software these teams are working on is secondary.

I meant the first thing I think of when someone says Adobe is Photoshop, not Flash.
 
Well this guy came from Macromedia first, the original creator of Flash. He was likely more involved in that than Adobe's other professional products.

That plus I have seen him in a ton of the blackberry developer videos from the past few years trying to push Adobe Air as a great mobile development platform.

So I'm personally not the biggest fan of this guy.

It mentions his involvement with Dreamweaver.

http://www.adobe.com/leaders/kevin-lynch/bio.html

With a long history of driving transformation across organizations, Lynch also led the pivotal move at Macromedia to web publishing and the development of Dreamweaver, before the company was acquired by Adobe in 2005.
 
How? Flash-enabled devices (Android) sell way better.

Please show one. Adobe is not even supporting flash mobile. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/11/09/adobe-to-stop-work-on-flash-for-mobile-browsers/
 
I expect to see a Dreamweaver like integrated standards web development tool that uses HTML5 and other web standards come from Apple. I also expect him end up working with Jonny Ive on UI design.
 
Hope Kevin's expertise can contribute to Apple's future software-hardware offerings.
 
Hey! Well done. Stupid comment of the day. Adobe don't support Mobile flash anymore.. for about 14 months in fact.

Because it's rubbish in mobile browsers. Great for apps tho... where even a lot os iOS apps use it, but you knew that didn't you?

Nope. I had 3 Android phones in the last 14 months (Galaxy S2, Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Note2) and they all had Flash player. In fact, the last version of Flash Player for Android was released a month ago (link) And if you want to install the player on the latest Android phones (Jelly Bean) read instructions here.
 
New Apple Draw (macromedia freehand) plz vectot drawing
Also new Apple Pagemaker plz
Also bring in Apple website program
 
Gruber is an idiot turkey stuffed with greasy agenda....he blogs because he can't produce ANYTHING.

Lynch is crazy smart. And btw folks...if you see something utterly sweet and innovative on the web...and (context) right click on it...70% of the time...you'll see it was produced in Flash.

All the big sites are still using it: News, Sports, Auto sites, YouTube, etc. etc.

As someone who has produced both HTML 5 and Flash I can say with some expertise: HTML5 is 10 years behind.
 
Gruber is an idiot turkey stuffed with greasy agenda....he blogs because he can't produce ANYTHING.

Lynch is crazy smart. And btw folks...if you see something utterly sweet and innovative on the web...and (context) right click on it...70% of the time...you'll see it was produced in Flash.

All the big sites are still using it: News, Sports, Auto sites, YouTube, etc. etc.

As someone who has produced both HTML 5 and Flash I can say with some expertise: HTML5 is 10 years behind.

I still think the idea that this hire means Flash coming to iOS is laughable. My guess is he wanted to do something different or knew he wouldn't be CEO anytime soon and Apple made him a good offer. But I'm still not sure how he fits into Mansfield's org since Mansfield is primarily a hardware guy.

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Nope. I had 3 Android phones in the last 14 months (Galaxy S2, Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Note2) and they all had Flash player. In fact, the last version of Flash Player for Android was released a month ago (link) And if you want to install the player on the latest Android phones (Jelly Bean) read instructions here.

Well I haven't missed flash at all on my iPhone or ipad. For the few times I need it I use the Puffin browser which works fine for what I need.
 
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