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Flash on Android is an awful experience.... thus Adobe moving away from Flash.
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Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch Joining Apple as VP of Technologies
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You're doing episodic work?
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Flash on Android is an awful experience.... thus Adobe moving away from Flash.
I think of Photoshop. Even back during it's heyday, I always felt Flash played second fiddle to it.
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.
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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Techcrunch makes best sense of it.
Check out TechCrunch's cloud-based take on it - that also makes a bit more sense of him reporting under Mansfield.
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.
Are most people here just speculating or is it guaranteed that iOS will get Flash just because Kevin Lynch is joining Apple?
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And this is why your posts never get voted up. Post the truth!
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And this is why your posts never get voted up. Post the truth!
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".
I meant the first thing I think of when someone says Adobe is Photoshop, not Flash.
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.
Out of all mobile platforms, WebOS ran Flash the best, better than Android, and look how their sales went.
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.
If you look at DaringFireballs take on him...no.
He was still pushing flash on the mobile platform long after that ship had sailed.
Uh oh...John Gruber calls this guy a bozo and a bad hire.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/19/lynch-bozo
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/19/lynch-bozo
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.
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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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.