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By tim, on September 20th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has released its quarterly figures for its third financial quarter 2012. The figures show the success of Creative Cloud, Adobe’s subscription-based model for purchasing the Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and Flash. Total revenue is fractionally up on the same period in 2011, from $1013.2M to $1080.6M.
Adobe reports over 200,000
…continue reading Adobe results: 200,000 Creative Cloud subscribers and an impressive transition
By tim, on May 24th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterToday’s Windows 8 rumour is that Adobe Flash will be baked into Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8, not only in the desktop edition but also in Metro.
Until this is confirmed by Microsoft, it is only a rumour. However, it seems likely to me. The way this rumour mill works is:
Some journalists and
…continue reading Adobe Flash in Windows 8 Metro, but not technically a plug-in
By tim, on February 16th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has published a Flex Roadmap which I guess is one of those “Let’s end the speculation” pieces which nevertheless still leaves you with questions.
Flex is the XML-based language for coding applications for the Flash player or runtime. Doubts about Adobe’s long-term strategy for Flex appeared last November when Adobe announced a shift in
…continue reading Adobe’s Flex roadmap: another go at positioning Flex and Flash versus HTML5
By tim, on December 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter2011 felt like a pivotal year in technology. What was pivoting? Well, users are pivoting away from networks and PCs and towards cloud and devices. The obvious loser is Microsoft, which owns PCs and networks but is a distant follower in devices and has mixed prospects in the cloud. Winners include Apple, Google, Amazon, and
…continue reading ITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare year
By tim, on December 19th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has told a group of Flex developers, invited to San Francisco for a special reconciliatory summit following the sudden announcement that Flex is moving to the Apache Foundation, that Flash Catalyst will be discontinued. Developer Fabien Nicollet was there and posts:
CS5.5 version of Catalyst is the latest version of Flash Catalyst. It is
…continue reading Adobe discontinues Flash Catalyst, clarifies Flex and Flash Builder futures
By tim, on December 10th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has has announced the release of Silverlight 5.0.
Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for Windows and Mac. It is relatively small size – less than 7MB according to Microsoft, though the Mac version seems to be bigger, with a 14MB compressed setup .dmg and apparently over 100MB once installed:
Never mind,
…continue reading Silverlight 5 is done. Is Silverlight also done?
By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe is stating that mobile Flash will no longer be developed:
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new
…continue reading What next for Adobe Flash? Think runtime not plugin
By tim, on October 14th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterThe unstated theme of Adobe MAX 2011 last week was this: what is the future of Flash? The issue being that with HTML 5 ascendant and Apple wrecking the idea of Flash as an ubiquitous web plug-in, should Adobe be frantically retooling its design tools for HTML and apps, or does Flash still have a
…continue reading Adobe MAX 2011 and the future of Flash
By tim, on October 5th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterThe Sneaks session at Adobe MAX is always fun as well as giving some insight into what is coming from the company, though note that these are research projects and there is no guarantee that any will make it into products.
This time we also got commentary from Rainn Wilson, an actor in the
…continue reading Sneak Peeks at Adobe MAX 2011 … and that annoying updater
By tim, on October 4th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI took a quick look round the exhibition here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, and was intrigued to see crowds round the Barnes & Noble Nook stand, a newcomer to Max.
Barnes & Noble has its own app store for Color Nook, the AIR runtime is on the device, and in fact is
…continue reading Developers keen to get apps on Barnes & Noble Nook
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