I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you. We are developers not users. Users are the ones that can choose what device/OS to use. The developers are the ones that need to test and build the application based on their users requirements. If my application is targeted to some device/OS I think is logical to use that device/OS and not emulators or free OS. If I want to built an application for iOS, I'll have to test it on a proper iPhone/iPad. If your main target client are using Windows, use Windows not Linux. As developer you need to build & test your application using the OS/device that the majority of users will have.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Left Right <olegsivo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrei, > > please read my post above. Even if all Linux users at once used some > application built for Flash runtime, that wouldn't make a significant > difference from Adobe perspective as a company that provides the runtime, > simply, because there aren't enough of them, and they aren't of the kind > that pays for this kind of applications. > > However, there is a significant amount of Linux users who _write_ > applications for various platforms. This is entirely different thing, and, > if you look at how many developers are on different kinds of operating > systems, surprisingly, there may be equal number of programmers using Mac > OS, for example, and Linux. I wouldn't be surprised if there were actually > more programmers on Linux, then on Mac OS (hey, it's harder to convince a > programmer to buy a cat in the sac, especially if there are vial free > alternatives). So, targeting a commercial OS with possibly equal or less > number of programmers using it is a "strange" move from Adobe... Especially > so since it's also a Unix system, so, things shouldn't be "that" different > (yeah, I know gdm and all that - we've talked about it before). > This "strange" move might've been an historical tradition - Adobe just as > Macromedia before, positioned Flash and development tools as targeting > graphic artists for the most, and only marginally - programmers. It's not > true any more, because the programmers sector grew, because the language > and the runtime matured. Now, it would be only reasonable to admit the > change in the situation, and start supporting the other kind of customers, > but for reason that come unexplained, Adobe is devoted to support Flash > Builder for Macs, regardless of the hardship of keeping up with all kinds > of unexpected updates and secrecy policies Apple imposes on them, and > totally disregards the opensource alternative, which, for once, isn't > hiding anything form them and isn't putting any ultimatums of that kind... > I find this weird, by, ya'know, that's the executes' decision anyway. > > Best. > > wvxvw >
