Adobe's failure
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"adobe can keep flash relevant, by not being such cry babies about apple and it's business, and focusing more on innovating with their curent offerings."
Is innovating really a strategy (i.e., that you can be for or against)? I'm imagining the Adobe board meeting:
"We've thought carefully about the challenges we face and in the end, we've come down on the side of....not innovating."
*Wild applauseWhat I feel like I don't know is more along the lines of how Adobe will position Flash, and HTML5, in their future releases. Does Adobe just bite the bullet and wind up creating a really powerful tool for the graphics parts of HTML5 (like CANVAS, which they previously seemed to oppose) even if it risks killing Flash?
Do they try to seriously reposition Flash for use in areas that are "too advanced";) at the moment for HTML5 and JS (3D, augmented reality, ...), while more or less ceding ground with the more basic stuff like video?
Or, option C, do they just kind of muddle through half heartedly and do a little of both? Attempt to keep the status quo going with Flash, and push it forward a bit with each release like they have been doing, while sort of tepidly supporting HTML5 with token features here and there.
Depending on how effective the leadership is, they could easily end up with that last approach by default. But maybe they'll surprise everyone by pursuing option A, or B, or A and B at once.