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As a purely strategic and tactical decision, I for one applaud Adobe's ability to make one of the most difficult choices in any endeavor: choosing to shudder something that has had success in the past. Chambers iterates this well and succinctly "the Flash Player was not on track to reach anywhere near the ubiquity of the Flash Player on desktops".

Time and again, we see tech leaders pour billions into platforms, systems, and toolsets whose writing may be on the wall, but whose previous success, market share dominance, and/or prior profit potential overshadowed its forthcoming pain and struggle (see: Nokia Symbian/MeeGo, MS Bing), and time and again, the inability to cut things off quickly have led to near catastrophic results.

Choosing to build something is a courageous admirable thing. Choosing to stop building something is equally so.

[soonisnow]

(Correction: "choosing to shuTTer something..", I meant. I often confuse those two, and it makes me shudder.)