FGS 2012 - It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
1. It’s The End Of The World
As We Know It, And I Feel Fine.
By Ben Garney
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2. Introduction
• Who am I?
• What’s going on?
• Where are we going?
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6. Recent Events
• Adobe drops Flash in mobile browsers.
• Financial analyst call in January.
• Open sourcing Flex.
• Flash Player Roadmap last month.
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7. Flash in the Market
• Flash has a great position.
• But right behind it...
• Corona, Moai, Unity
• Scaleform, Iggy, In-house tech.
• HTML5, Emscripten, Swiffy, Gordon
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11. “Declining” Outcomes
• Led to GG sale to IAC for ~$50M...
• Left and started PushButton Labs...
• Torque survived shutdown, still selling!
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12. “Declining Asset”
is a label to help make decisions.
Not business reality.
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13. Back to Adobe...
• Writing on the wall.
• Long term winner: HTML5
• But Flash still lives....
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15. Tech Communities
• Look out for the vocal minority.
• The people you hear from are emotionally
invested.
• Users have a limited perspective.
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33. Conclusion
• Flash is a “declining asset”...
• (Whatever that means.)
• Leverage Flash as long as you can!
• Your skillsets are not...
• Future proof yourself.
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34. Conclusion
• Thanks for coming!
• http://bengarney.com
• @bengarney
• Questions?
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