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by dakom 469 days ago
Eh.. lots of projects targeted mobile app stores by authoring in Flash and using the GPU accelerated stuff. Starling was a semi-blessed framework. Worked perfectly well, no battery drain. Lots of "native" apps were authored that way (and still are, you see the same approach with Unity etc.)

Browser plugins could have been fixed to catch up, the VM itself wasn't the problem in terms of drain
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cmrdporcupine 469 days ago
Not my recollection at all. Adobe invested almost 0 effort in getting their runtime working on non-x86 platforms. It was pathetic, honestly, how many years passed before they had any kind of passable implementation there.

Adobe Flex was interesting and not awful. The problem was the runtime.

And the company behind it. Who remains awful.

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dakom 467 days ago
Do you remember Angry Birds? https://villekoskela.org/2012/02/15/angry-birds-facebook-rel...
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