Not worth the effort to try to explain anything or try to discuss different points of views when for someone the glass will be always half empty and the discussions are not constructive at all. What I don't understand like others said before is why if you're not using AIR, you dont believe in it and you dont like it ... why you still come back here? ... View more

PippoApps  escribió .... So, let's clear this space from what our "guts" suggest us, and keep this discussion going to give Andrew insights from the developers point of view, without wasting his time with our emotions. Can't be more agree ! ... View more

It's really nice to read you Chris, we understand that these things are not easy and in big companies you can't do what you want to most of times due to several circumstances/reasons. So thank you very much for being there and keep pushing, we'll love to hear that you'll be involved in this new era. There are a lot of people that keep seeing AIR advantages and we think it has a long future ahead with work and dedication. Best !!! ... View more

Better late than never ! ... View more

Andrew, your actual level of communication in this 24h has been more than Adobe's one in last 4 years !!! Probably too much questions by us ( We have been waiting somebody who hear a lot of time ... ! ) but don't worry we're not that bad ! The actitude and approach is impressive, this is the way to go ! ... View more

And a last and very important point : The people that are still here is because they really believes in AIR ( as a technology ) and I'm sure all of us want to participate / collaborate / help in all this transition and new AIR future. This community is actually not very big but very loyal and compromised, and the most important, experienced and that's very valuable for the platform. Use the community as a solid base to grow. Take care of them and the'll respond. Ask them and let them help all that they can. But keep the word "Adobe" as far as you can, we know that perhaps contractually has to be there, but better in the "legal terms" rather than beside AIR logo. They have made "enough" . ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+C.  escribió Thank you Andrew for your answers and transparency. I'm sure this partnership has required much more efforts and discussions than we can imagine. About the future of AIR, I have a question: what do you plan on the marketing level? Is your approach to just update and maintain the technology, so it fits your own needs, being funded by people who already use it? Or do you plan to invest in marketing AIR as a great cross-platform tech, to also attract new developers? Many of us have always been depressed by Adobe's lack of communication about AIR, so people are not even aware of its existence. Do you plan to make AIR more popular by promoting the tech? Thank you. I think that for that pay model works, it's essential to invest in marketing and invest in evangelizers who post in blogs and communicate about the usability and potential of the technology. It's the way to attract devs and gain more paid users. I think it's important also to have a good community site ( with projects showcase ) and a clear roadmap. As many of us think, AIR is a mature and good technology that is capable to do almost everything and compared to the other crossplatform technologies is quite strong in a lot of points. The worse part of AIR has been clearly the support, totally neglected by Adobe and the lack of communication in every aspect. Those has been the main reasons why the people jumped to other frameworks and I completly understand it. They jumped because the confidence not because the technology, when you have customers and need to start over a project you evaluate pros and cons and obviously the feeling was not good at all with the future of AIR. If Haman is able to recover devs confidence and offers a really solid future path, I think little by little we can recover audience and devs because the technology itself is quite good. ... View more

Perhaps they can bring you back to the ship in the future Leo ! ... View more

Thank you very much Andrew, sounds very good !!! ... View more

PippoApps  escribió This HARMAN seems like a serious company... hope, hope, hope... Yes, it's a big one so let's hope a real change and a move forward. ... View more

Great news finally !!!! A revamp for Air ? I'll be more than happy to pay and have the support we deserve. ... View more

Completly agree too with your point of view. Zero communication and stopping funding Starling and Feathers are signs that the plan to unplug the technology it's near. What I dont understand is that having such mature platform, they simply doesn't try anything. Crossplatforms today are very interesting, look at Flutter for example, if a company like Google make this kind of movements is because the market is looking for it. Rebrand Air, sell it to an external company, open source it and benefit from it in some other way ( brand image, link some special functions with other adobe products, etc ) ... But simply having this such platform and simply let it die sounds no sense to me. ... View more

Really good answer, I'm totally agree with you and also think that when that day comes, we'll have enougth time to move. Until then, AIR it's simply perfect as a versatile and mature crossplatform . ... View more

Waiting for it ! Our APP goes to market after 2 years of hard work and we're really compromised with this situation ... ... View more