Adobe Cutting 750 Jobs, Trims 4Q Outlook and Kills Mobile Flash

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Wow, there is a lot of trimming going on at Adobe today. The company slashed its fourth quarter outlook, 750 jobs are being cut and the company has decided to cut mobile flash as well. :rolleyes:

Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday that it is laying off 750 workers, or 7 percent of its workforce, as it moves to focus on products that help people create digital content and then market it on multiple devices and platforms. The company also slashed its earnings guidance for the quarter through Dec. 2 to account for a restructuring charge it expects to book in the quarter of $73 million to $78 million, mainly for severance payments.
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soulpunisher said:
to bad their software is good but IMO it is way over priced.
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Considering they are for professionals, $700 for Photoshop isn't so bad. 3DSMax isn't cheap either for about $3k but people still buy it.

If you need to do photo editing, either buy PS Essentials or use GIMP.
 
Im happy about the mobile flash. It performs "adequate" at best on Android anyway. Bring on html5.
 
Adobe just officially announced that it's killing Flash Player for Android and the BlackBerry Playbook, following a ZDNet report of the decision late last night. The company will still develop and support Flash for the PC, but says that HTML5 is the "best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms." Adobe will also continue to support AIR on mobile so developers can package Flash content as mobile apps, and Flash Player 11.1 for Android and Playbook is still on track to be released — and Adobe will continue to ship bug fixes and security updates, as well.
 
Steve Jobs must have seen this day coming...hence, no flash for iPhone from day 1
 
Thank you Adobe. I was dreading flash on Android. one less thing that's likely to bring my phones browser to it's knees.

If you want Photoshop without paying the full $1000+ I found a legal shortcut is to go down to your community college and take a class and then buy the student copy for $200. $500 class +$200 Photoshop = saving $300, more if your getting a larger program package, I recommend the photoshop, indesign, illustrator package.
 
So we'll get HTML5 on the android browser any day now? Maybe on Dolphin? LOL. Not holding my breath.

And if we do get it it'll be your typical half-assed Google clusterfuck done by some guy in his spare time that rots in eternal beta while they ignore bugs posted on their support site. Like with Google Music. Google Nav and the flaky ass blue-tooth audio stack.

Because, fuck fixing things when you can sell a billion phones to drones who facebook their twitter mail all day.
 
Part of the problem with Flash is that it was intended to have things like roll-over effects and an interface that was never designed for a touch screen.
Too often restaurants will have a flash landing page and while the Android will show it...you still can't do anything with it. You're just stuck trying to make it work instead of the iPhone just flat out telling you not to bother.
 
Eisenblut said:
It has far more to do with mobile Flash being a major battery drain than Jobs being some prophet.
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But that WAS Jobs complaint. Not some vendetta against Adobe - their desktop OS supports Flash just fine. Merely that it was a godawful battery drain and so inappropriate for mobile devices.
 
In related news, Microsoft may (or may not) let Silverlight die too:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-there-be-a-silverlight-6-and-does-it-matter/11180

I never installed Silverlight on any of my PCs, and it never seemed to make any difference. I wondered who actually uses it, so I looked it up on wikipedia, and they say:

"As of 26 August 2011, 0.3% sites are using Silverlight, whereas site usage of Adobe Flash is around 27%. Usage of Java on sites during the same time period is around 4%."
 
dderidex said:
But that WAS Jobs complaint. Not some vendetta against Adobe - their desktop OS supports Flash just fine. Merely that it was a godawful battery drain and so inappropriate for mobile devices.
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Yes, and it does not make Jobs a supergenius or a prophet or messiah for stating the obvious.
 
evilsofa said:
In related news, Microsoft may (or may not) let Silverlight die too:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-there-be-a-silverlight-6-and-does-it-matter/11180

I never installed Silverlight on any of my PCs, and it never seemed to make any difference. I wondered who actually uses it, so I looked it up on wikipedia, and they say:

"As of 26 August 2011, 0.3% sites are using Silverlight, whereas site usage of Adobe Flash is around 27%. Usage of Java on sites during the same time period is around 4%."
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LOL, which is funny because Netflix streaming is 100% Silverlight, and Netflix supposedly consumes 1/3 of internet traffic.
 
evilsofa said:
In related news, Microsoft may (or may not) let Silverlight die too:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-there-be-a-silverlight-6-and-does-it-matter/11180

I never installed Silverlight on any of my PCs, and it never seemed to make any difference. I wondered who actually uses it, so I looked it up on wikipedia, and they say:

"As of 26 August 2011, 0.3% sites are using Silverlight, whereas site usage of Adobe Flash is around 27%. Usage of Java on sites during the same time period is around 4%."
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Netflix uses it. BOOM.
 
Clockworks said:
If you need to do photo editing, either buy PS Essentials or use GIMP.
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Paint.NET is my free weapon of choice.

Are there any good PDF editors? I love PDF's, but figured you had to buy the expensive software to actually edit it.
 
Getting an iPhone just got more attractive. And to you people complaining about flash killing your browser.. just turn the option to on demand! Geez..
 
Trimlock said:
why?
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Which part? I'm going to assume the iPhone part. I say it's more attractive because to me using an iOS device has always felt incomplete and a big part of that is flash support. Now that mobile flash will be replaced by html5 iOS devices won't feel so incomplete. I also hope that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen but that's for another thread :)
 
shoota said:
Which part? I'm going to assume the iPhone part. I say it's more attractive because to me using an iOS device has always felt incomplete and a big part of that is flash support. Now that mobile flash will be replaced by html5 iOS devices won't feel so incomplete. I also hope that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen but that's for another thread :)
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I don't remember anywhere in the article where it said it was going to disappear.
 
Soggy said:
If you want Photoshop without paying the full $1000+ I found a legal shortcut is to go down to your community college and take a class and then buy the student copy for $200. $500 class +$200 Photoshop = saving $300, more if your getting a larger program package, I recommend the photoshop, indesign, illustrator package.
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That doesn't net you a "real" retail-level license, though, only a student one. Student licenses typically aren't eligible for upgrades and other perks and often have usage restrictions.
 
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