I started noticing the performance issues – where even simple movies were seriously lagging in the same player, even on Windows XP, with better hardware than years prior. This is a side-effect of the bloat that Adobe is known for (and why I’m sad that the once-great Macromedia was bought by Adobe) – they add near-useless features (or features you only use once a year) that bog down the entire player for little benefit; I was noticing, even on a newer computer, the current year’s player runs slower than last year’s.

I enjoyed the AS syntax early on, but Iain points out the inconsistency and confusion that made me frustrated with it.

I’m not sure where Adobe is trying to take Flash, and it’s silly, because it feels more like marketing-driven bullet-points, rather than a larger vision based on where the technology can/will go. Marketing people are the worst people to be determining the end path of a development platform.

I feel as though I have attempted to give a pretty fair shake by sharing links in the post above that illustrate my points where needed.

I’m not going to go topic by topic (there are no direct questions, and such threads diverge quickly), but I don’t think the above comment is accurate.

jd/adobe