Obviously, the news last week was Adobe’s announcement of them discontinuing support for the Flash plugin for mobile. Once again, I, along with Ansca, got media coverage. The two most important pieces are
Read Write Web “Ex-Flash Manager: Adobe Ignored Smartphones Until It Was Too Late” >>
and
Wired “Adobe Had It Coming: The Long, Slow, Goodbye of Mobile Flash” >>
Aside from Adobe killing Flash Mobile, it also laid off about 750 people. Some of them are friends of mine, colleagues, people I bumped into while both at Adobe/Macromedia and I can’t fathom how it must feel to be laid off a week prior to the ThanksGiving holiday. Godspeed.
Carlos