Can I be very honest? You guys are really annoying. It is our roles as consultant and independant contractors to convaince our clients, otherwise they are not client and we are employees.But with such winning and passive agressive attitude no wonder you have hard time getting your client use not AIR, but the technology you are clamoring as being abandoned by Adobe. Where have you been for the past 4 years, under a rock? Because in my world with every single of my contracts for the past 9 years being nothing but Flash, Flex and AIR, that stack kept my work and my client a decade ahead of a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g else. Do not get me wrong, I have been among the most vocal in exposing Adobe failures and nonsense third world fused corporate strategies, as you can see on this post and particularly the comments: Let me try to explain why Adobe AIR is... - Stephane Beladaci | Facebook However, what has been happening is that Adobe just served the soup to the HTML5 delusional but dominant market by developing some tools for which the media said Adobe "set the web 15 years back". In the same time, Adobe simply and very quietly kept Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash at the very top of multimedia and application development technologies. Now instead of just complaining that Adobe does not do enough, try to see what we got and just get yourself together and do what Adobe is not capable of doing: communicating our passion, we are one of the most passionate breed of developers, because we rock the best and most innovative set of technologies and we have for over a decade solid. We've seem it every other year, when it was not Ajax and OpenLazlo, it was Expression and when not that, it was Silverlight and when not that it was Quicktime, and HTML5 and PhoneGap.. none of which ever powered even a fraction of an industry. We powered entertainment, gaming, media and enterprise apps including two third of the finance industry from NYC to London to Singapure. While everyone is going coucou about HTML5, Adobe has been keeping the relevancy of Flash Player on the web stacked at 99% penetration by focusing on gaming and video, domain in which Flash and AIR advance along with Adobe's unbeatable integration made it untouchable. Even Steve Jobs failed, I wish he was here to see it even though he would have probably find a trick on stage to fool everyone again and make the world line up at the stores to thank him. Now, the beauty of it is that no matter how bad at communicating Adobe is, they are establishing AIR as new standard for app development and they have been literrally taking over the entire digital television technology market, or at least they are in the process of. Check this out: This is the head of digital media at NBC Sports, watch this carefully and pay attention to what he says, then read your post on this thread again and have some introspection: Adobe and NBC Olympics Launch Apps for 2012 Olympic Games - YouTube Then, if you need inspiration to talk to your client you can find some in this news report, pay attention to th statements and again compare with the words you spread about Adobe and AIR dead (I'm heating up just typing this, I do every single time I get an email notification with this damn title): Free Apps Bring Streaming Olympics to Phones, Tablets - YouTube If you have a doubt about Adobe Flash being at the core of whatever names Adobe has been using to not deal with the massive, global brain washing abut Flash maybe this article will help see it. This is Adobe breaking ground again and keeping Flash the defacto porvoyer of the best video quality on the web: http://blogs.adobe.com/primetime/2013/12/adobe-primetime-1-2-adds-native-hls-support-to-flash-player/ You are probably going to say but that was two years ago and Adobe this, Adobe that since then. Well, this is the head of digital media at NBC Sports again and it's in 2014, listen crefully to the statements, again. Because yes, Adobe Flash AIR and Apache Flex has been bringing both the 2012 and 2014 Olympics to unprecedented audiences, delivering the largest video events in history to all mobile devices from one code base. They saved NBC tons of cash and brought them a mind blowing competitive edge: NBC Sports & Adobe Primetime - Customer Success - YouTube Competitive edge which I have been establishing as my technical approach of choice for application development from web to mobile to TV: One Code. Any Screen. Develop once, deploy everywhere is a reality.
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