Last week, Google announced a few things. One being that Google Music was now available without and invite. The second being Google Music for Artists, which is what I’ll be writing about in this post. I’ve been wondering for some time whether Google would be opening some way for artists and labels to distribute music …
Before this evening, this post was going to read as another grueling defense of Flash technologies… Here’s an except from my earlier draft: I have always used Flash when appropriate, to do things which were either impossible with HTML or at least would be a major pain. I’ve developed many applications which use Flash technology …
“Adobe annouced today that Flex is going open source!” [this is a post from 2007 in light of Adobe’s announcement on 11/11/11] Heh… really… Contribute to SPOON and see what happens!
So, basically – here is what is happening: Adobe is halting development on the mobile web browser version of Flash Player for Android. This effectively places Android on the same level as iOS so far as Flash Player goes for the future. They are doing this as part of a massive reorg to shift resources …
It’s been an uphill battle since “Thoughts on Flash” and this year things were finally leveling off. I was getting buy-in from important pockets of my organization and now Adobe’s message has utterly annihilated all the work I’ve done putting mobile Flash in a positive light. I’m not wasting any more time convincing people if …