RIP Mobile Flash
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Clients want things that look like they have blending modes, motion blurs, 3d, scripted movements and interactions and animations that are frame/keyframe based. Who wouldn't leap at the chance of having AE-style mograph-looking output natively and at low cost running in the browser/app/interface window with high-level scripted interaction/augmented reality ?
We'd love it, our clients would love it. They'd pay us for it.
It would turn and generate billions of dollars, yet we're all stymied by trying to navigate this mountain in the mist and just shouting at each other on other paths. We thought we'd really taken a huge step up with Flash and for a while it was peachy, it was easy to produce impacting sites that clients and customers loved, but time moved on and the technology and the creativeware got out of sync.
Personally, I don't really give a crap about who wins in the deployment layer, I like to code, script, design and animate to interpret my clients' vision and precisely deliver their brand and product - I want to be able to do that with high-level tools that really work and that can produce output that is easily adaptable to the display device, looking spectacular on cinema displays and smoothly functional on a lower-grade Android.
Whoever delivers that will get my money and my loyalty, I don't care who they are. For an industry as a whole to have dropped the ball on not delivering a killer product to as an enormous and sophisticated and wealthy marketplace as the 10s of millions of designers and developers is shocking, I can't think of any other that has performed so badly and become such a mired clusterfuck as this.- hahaha, some good pointsukit2
- There's just so much hot air. Our job is to make great stuff for clients, that their customers love. We're b2b. This is just bs.mikotondria3
- by time do u mean public opinion? take flash out and what do u have for animated web based stuff?deathboy
- As far as best tools still seems like flash takes the cake.deathboy
- or is that what youre saying?deathboy
- well yes and no, I always had trouble with glitches in the editor, and with the performance issues on so many platforms and the fact it was a plugin...mikotondria3
- and the Jobs' opinion has flitered down to clients who want something else. They know that and they want more seo, yeesh.mikotondria3
- clients are idiots.. but youre right. they think somethign is better because there is buzz about itdeathboy
- few realize what it is and how it relates to them. friggen clients. im interested in seeing what adobe does still think it smart to pull resourcesdeathboy
- pull resources since apps the way to go mobile it seems. AS was an advanced js in closed environment w/ gui. Maybe flash will just adapt open environment js stuffdeathboy
- flash will jsut adapt js open environment stuff. I jsut dont want to back track to pre flash daysdeathboy
- Right, that's a great point. AS is just a flavor of JS,..mikotondria3