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Originally Posted by Nookster
Flash is absolutely dead. Adobe has officially stated they are no longer developing it as a matter of fact. HTML5 + JS is where it's at now.  |
This is what totally shows that Adobe is stupid as fuck. Back when they bought out Macromedia and they took over Shockwave, they essentially killed it and stopped any meaningful development with it, because it was competition to Flash.
At the time Shockwave pretty much owned the browser based games market. Added to this Shockwave supported 3d in the web browser probably 6 to 8 years ago if not longer. Despite this Abobe killed Shockwave and said Flash will be the new king.
Meanwhile Adobe didn't really cater Flash to browser based games and pretty much ignored that market letting developers make due with what little tools they had. In comes 3rd party software developers just in time to see games starting to show up on smart phones and gain popularity in the browser market.
Meanwhile Adobe being dumb as fuck totally drops the ball on a upcoming market that they essentially were handed had they put any focus at all on it. Now Flash is dead and they are shit out of luck and completely dropped the ball on being top dog for both smart phone & browser based game development.