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Adobe Renaming 'Flash Professional' to ‘Animate’, Shifts Focus to HTML5
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adobe's creative cloud pricing is a joke and a lawsuit waiting to happen - for instance, if you want the photography bundle, you pay 9.99 a month. that gets you photoshop and lightroom. if you only want indesign, you pay 15.99 a month.
how is that pricing fair? doesn't it make sense to make every app the same price - say 5 a month - and let the customer pick which apps they want? much better than paying $50 or $70 a month for a bunch of apps you might never use.
as for renaming flash, you can wrap a turd in gold, but its still a turd.
how is that pricing fair? doesn't it make sense to make every app the same price - say 5 a month - and let the customer pick which apps they want? much better than paying $50 or $70 a month for a bunch of apps you might never use.
as for renaming flash, you can wrap a turd in gold, but its still a turd.
Adobe has had a long standing software engineering policy of keeping as much of a common code base between platforms as possible keeping custom code for a platform to a minimum. From that, you loose taking advantage of features unique to a platform.
For example, I was running an instrumentation app project a few years ago. We were attempting (more like running into a busy railroad tunnel) to port a Windows app to a mobile platform. Market and sales guys were really upset there were no pop-up menus as the customers are used to on the desktop app.
After a long and drawn out conversation, the Voice of Revenue Stream won out over the Voice of New Technology with the CEO intervening and even laying down a termination threat on one developer to give Marketing and Sales what they wanted or else. So yes, we ended up putting pop-up menus on a mobile device!
It sold to the current customers but those already familiar with mobile devices laughed at the app saying it wasn't like the rest of mobile apps they were used to and "too much like a desktop app" to the dismay of the sales force. Most of the development teams left a year later over that and a few other legacy based product specifications.
That comment is completely off topic. One of the biggest problems here is with those many individuals who just can't resist bringing up their own hate agenda in every non related thread that exists. Just pathetic. I suspect that many won't be happy until you chase away everyone that wants to express some intelligence and reasonable discussion without constant hatred and slamming.
About time. I got tired of being told I need to update a plugin. Hey anyone remember Macromedia Shockwave...whatever...
Exactly ....
Flash basically is "legalized malware".
do you feel smart with such a comment ?
Ummmm... Steve Jobs lived from 1955 to 2011, or 56 years.
Flash has only been around since the mid 1990's, or about 20 years (so far).
56 > 20
I dunno, $600 a year for software I use daily for a living is peanuts if you ask me. That's less than my day rate.
How is it that a company charging what it wants to charge for its products a "lawsuit waiting to happen"? If people don't like it, they won't buy it (subscribe). Adobe will decide whether their subscription model is profitable for them. If they lose enough customers, they'll likely change. If there was a better alternative for less money, I'd jump ship. But so far there really isn't, at least not for pro users doing image editing and/or page layout.
Wow. You are getting a lot of butt hurt and pedanticism over this comment. True, the execution could have been better, but as a rejoinder it made me giggle. As for the butt hurt? People should lighten up. Steve doesn't care.
So how many different pieces of software do you use? I'm all for paying for software since I write it for a living, but let's recognize that you probably use more than 100 distinct pieces of software throughout the year. Are you ready to pay $600 for each, or do you think maybe the quality of what you receive when you use them should be taken into consideration?
Adobe's constant updates probably costed the company more money than it was worth to keep up with it.
I'm glad its finally going away. Flash will not be missed.
I'm glad its finally going away. Flash will not be missed.
it's going about as fast as Flash can go
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Glad to see Flash go away. So many bugs and problems over the years.
I use a lot of Adobe stuff but Flash was a huge fail.
I use a lot of Adobe stuff but Flash was a huge fail.
This is the deceptive thing: Adobe is really just changing its name. Although Animate includes a few new features, it still can export as SWF. Adobe isn't giving up the Macromedia legacy. Animate can export -- supposedly -- as HTML5. I assume that works fine with simple animations. I'll be curious as to whether the interactive elements export seamlessly as well.
Flash in later versions had the ability to export as HTML5, but it didn't do that very well. I'm hoping Animate works better in that regard, but I suspect there still will be problems. Adobe is touting Animate's legacy compatibility with Flash, and that often means that sacrifices are made moving forward.
Unfortunately I still encounter flash often. I can't wait till it's just gone.