[brk]

Silly is very offensive and dismissive of how big flash gaming really is

I think you're much closer to it than I am, though I admit I did mean that comment somewhat dismissively.

IMO, Flash is dead. It never properly innovated into the mobile device market, and it frankly never even innovated properly into OS X. There are lots of flash games, but probably even more annoying-as-fuck-all flash ads.

I think there is a huge opportunity for someone to create a new iteration of the flash concept, but one that is properly multi-platform enabled, and gives users more control and abilities to prevent cookies and unwanted popups.

This remote desktop as a service just to get flash content thing seems like, to me, a prime example of "you're doing it wrong".

I agree that gaming is huge, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But Flash gaming is a concept/technology that is over.

[benologist]

What this really does is bridge the gap between Flash-and-mobile for the many companies & devs who created the mountains of games in Flash and will likely continue to for several more years even if Adobe continues to screw everything up - if Flash is doomed it's going to be a slow, slow death because in spite of Adobe it is a massive platform that's not going to disappear overnight.

But beyond that if these guys can make it bi-directional and pull mobile games to web then they're going to have an absolute killer product. If they can also go mobile-to-mobile then it'll just be crazy - publish to a platform, publish to all platforms. Streaming games, weird as it seems, looks like its got legs - onlive etc are doing it, it's really only the scale of the games that is changing.

As far as ads go I don't think that's even worth exploring (although that's in large part my bias towards games) - they have such short shelf lives they can adapt to new platforms without even considering legacy material.