Adobe's failure
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- stewdio0
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You're right. They put work into Air, etc. But I think that emphasizes my point even more. They kept building onto the little browser empires of other companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, and so on. That made them even more reliant on things they couldn't control. It's like building the house of cards even higher, rather than building a solid foundation to stand on.
If they had built their own browser they could use it to ensure their products would always be reliably supported by at least one company—their own. And they could have made it a mandatory install that came with any of their applications. I'm guessing all of us on QBN have Adobe products installed and therefore we'd all also have this Adobe browser installed. It could be as ubiquitous as Adobe Reader for PDFs. The difficult task would then be gaining some browser market share. But they have more advertising money and perhaps comparable political weight to Mozilla so I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and say they could have at least made a dent in the market. (At least if the browser was any good.) Google did this with Chrome after all.
Imagine that. Imagine Adobe had made a browser, we all had it installed because we had installed something else from Adobe, and perhaps from there Adobe could do something interesting... like release a new version of Flash Players with some cool new features. And the catch is that it would be only available for their own browser first, and then make its way to others.