Answered
Adobe Flash Player Cash Grab
Our company offers a whole suite of business applications built on Flash. For well over a year Adobe has been telling us that they will no longer support the Flash Player. That gave us time to move some but not all of our products to a new platform.
But until December 3rd 2020 Adobe failed to mention that they would force disabling of the Flash Player across all browsers. And not until that time we were told that there is an option, for those of us who still need access to their own Flash content. It seems that Adobe partnered with another company who have the sole rights to run Flash content, presumably in some kind of specialized browser. The catch? A cost of US$25,000 per year!
Adobe did not once mention this during the period when we were told that they would no longer support the Flash Player. I don't mind that they won't support the Flash Player but I do need access to my own Flash content. And, I would guess, so do many, many other users who payed Adobe for the Flash Developer tools. By analogy, this is like Adobe saying that they will no longer support the playing of CDs and that any CDs created with their CD creation tools will no longer be playable either.
This not OK! Several years ago I wondered why Steve Jobs was so angry with Adobe and now suspect that the answer was unresponsive, unscrupulous and greedy management.
We need some way to access our own Flash content and that should be perfectly fine as long as we accept responsibility for our own security. I would like to know what Adobe plans to do about that, other than giving us the middle finger.
thanks,
Terry
But until December 3rd 2020 Adobe failed to mention that they would force disabling of the Flash Player across all browsers. And not until that time we were told that there is an option, for those of us who still need access to their own Flash content. It seems that Adobe partnered with another company who have the sole rights to run Flash content, presumably in some kind of specialized browser. The catch? A cost of US$25,000 per year!
Adobe did not once mention this during the period when we were told that they would no longer support the Flash Player. I don't mind that they won't support the Flash Player but I do need access to my own Flash content. And, I would guess, so do many, many other users who payed Adobe for the Flash Developer tools. By analogy, this is like Adobe saying that they will no longer support the playing of CDs and that any CDs created with their CD creation tools will no longer be playable either.
This not OK! Several years ago I wondered why Steve Jobs was so angry with Adobe and now suspect that the answer was unresponsive, unscrupulous and greedy management.
We need some way to access our own Flash content and that should be perfectly fine as long as we accept responsibility for our own security. I would like to know what Adobe plans to do about that, other than giving us the middle finger.
thanks,
Terry
AdChoices