Adobe Edge Animate is their answer to animation in HTML 5 (not the same thing as an non-native SWF player like Shumway, but a direction they're obviously headed). Did some hands on with the early betas back at Adobe MAX 2011 - kinda felt like Flash 4 or 5 (admittedly I'm not a Flash guy, but have only played with it in the past)
From where does Adobe get money from Flash? It isn't through the Flash Player plugins (which are already free), but it does get money from tools that create Flash content. So why wouldn't it make sense for Adobe to have made a move like this?
Because Adobe has long been profiting greatly from their proprietary Flash player and other related software. Had the Flash format been a free standard and Flash player had no restriction on reverse engineering we would have had free Flash players for a long time.
Adobe actually made their Flash money from tooling and supporting services.
If they open sourced the spec and turned it into a commitie it would be in the same mess as HTML 5 and lose it's advantages (fast development, adoption for example).
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Adobe actually made their Flash money from tooling and supporting services.
If they open sourced the spec and turned it into a commitie it would be in the same mess as HTML 5 and lose it's advantages (fast development, adoption for example).