>But IMO, the goal is to grow the community and that means bringing in new >folks some of which may be returning Flex coders. I think we should try to >grow beyond being considered a niche market. Nobody at Adobe has said I can't >try to do that, and I've got all day to try.
Yes of course :-) Maurice -----Message d'origine----- De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : mardi 25 mars 2014 19:49 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: ApacheCon Slides On 3/25/14 11:07 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com> wrote: >> We'll know we are truly on our way to success when we start hearing >>from those folks again. > >I agree with the first sentence : I also think current users of Apache >Flex are related to "established Flex projects", that moved from Adobe >to Apache. > >However, regarding the market of Flex consultant/contractors, I think >most have left for good, that was probably a difficult decision for >them to take, so they won't come back, for the most part. Maybe I am too idealistic, but I think if FlexJS does become the most efficient way to make money selling RIAs and mobile apps, some of those folks will come back. > >I think Flex has shifted from buzz / mass / trendy market (like HTML5 >now) to niche market of passionate guys that truly believe Flex is >superior (like Apple fans in the early days), or simply >people/companies who has massively invested in Flex and can't afford >moving to something else for financial reasons. > >So should we measure our success on our ability to recover the >developers that left Flex, or in making happy the fewer ones that stayed with >us? > >Besides, I think there also a new category of Flex developers that are >attracted by development on mobile platforms, probably because it >covers the main mobile platforms, and seems easier/more fun than e.g. >writing native apps with XCode and Objective C. > >What do you think? We should certainly make our current customers happy. But IMO, the goal is to grow the community and that means bringing in new folks some of which may be returning Flex coders. I think we should try to grow beyond being considered a niche market. Nobody at Adobe has said I can't try to do that, and I've got all day to try. -Alex
