[donteflon]

Adobe's last decade was far from bad, it was actually pretty great[1], and they did it under fire from both Apple and Microsoft. Not only that, Microsoft Expression Studio and Silverlight went nowhere, Apple's Apperture and Final Cut are taking a beating in the marketplace from Lightroom and Premiere, Macromedia was acquired, and Quark lost its de facto DTP monopoly unable to compete with an application Adobe wrote from scratch (it's now at around 25% of the market and still diving).

Also, Adobe didn't declare Flash dead, they just discontinued the development of the mobile browser plugin (which no one was actually targeting). Flash on mobile devices is alive and well and running on Air better than ever, on both the iOS[2] and Android[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems#Revenue [2] http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/09/flash-based-mac... [3] http://blogs.aerys.in/jeanmarc-leroux/2012/02/02/air-3-2-sta...