[ricardo]

Adobe ignored OS X for years and is now finding themselves in a position where they're losing a hold on Flash as the 'standard' for online video. Rather than fixing the technical issues they're focused on marketing. The last 3 years of iPhone sales have proven that people can live without Flash. All Apple has to do now is continue to ignore them and hold their ground while Flash slowly fades away.

[wmf]

Actually they are fixing Flash, although that doesn't excuse Doing It Wrong for all those years.

http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html

[DeusExMachina]

Yes, I think this is a little to late for them. It seems to me that they went along with something like "Apple has too little market share so it's not so relevant to us".

In the meanwhile Apple become relevant increasing its computer market share with the Mac, conquering the third place in the smartphone market with the iPhone and creating a device (the iPad) that is targeted to a big new audience and in my opinion will take a big share on of the pie (also considering that this is the "multimedia" pie, one very relevant to Adobe).

But in all these years they pissed of Steve Jobs, and he is the wrong person to have as an enemy when you will depend more and more on Apple platforms.

[pkaler]

It seems more like Adobe's development teams slowed down after the Macromedia acquisition.

[greyfade]

It seems more like they fired what few good devs they had, more like.