I found out from an Adobe employee a while back that Adobe had decided to discontinue Flash back in 2013, but they continued to push it until about 2015, when they quietly DC'd key parts of the platform out from under a lot of unhappy paying developers (I was one of them). Then, as they pushed the new Adobe Flash Professional CC, the only edition to support the new HTML5 output, they said that "Flash could continue as a first-class citizen," although they had STILL know internally that they were discontinuing it.
So, I'm glad they finally decided to stop pretending. I lost all respect for Adobe during this debacle - my company lost $800 and three years of work because of this, and it would have been more if we hadn't seen the signs and dropped the platform entirely in early 2015. Adobe should have been honest about their plans to discontinue Flash when they first decided it in 2013, instead of trying to milk as much quick profit out of trusting developers in the meantime.
Yeah, seriously. This is the kind of behavior you get from companies like Oracle too. It might be better for their bottom line to milk Flash for all it's worth, but it's bad for customer trust and bad for everyone in the long run. Companies that operate this way, all else equal, will be surpassed by companies with customer-centric approaches.
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I found out from an Adobe employee a while back that Adobe had decided to discontinue Flash back in 2013, but they continued to push it until about 2015, when they quietly DC'd key parts of the platform out from under a lot of unhappy paying developers (I was one of them). Then, as they pushed the new Adobe Flash Professional CC, the only edition to support the new HTML5 output, they said that "Flash could continue as a first-class citizen," although they had STILL know internally that they were discontinuing it.
So, I'm glad they finally decided to stop pretending. I lost all respect for Adobe during this debacle - my company lost $800 and three years of work because of this, and it would have been more if we hadn't seen the signs and dropped the platform entirely in early 2015. Adobe should have been honest about their plans to discontinue Flash when they first decided it in 2013, instead of trying to milk as much quick profit out of trusting developers in the meantime.
Yeah, seriously. This is the kind of behavior you get from companies like Oracle too. It might be better for their bottom line to milk Flash for all it's worth, but it's bad for customer trust and bad for everyone in the long run. Companies that operate this way, all else equal, will be surpassed by companies with customer-centric approaches.