Adobe forgets to thank Apple as it hits $1bn per quarter

Adobe forgets to rub Apples nose in their success as it hits $1bn per quarter

The time was that on most sites you visited, plugins had to be manually installed to view the content.

Now the only time you see that, is when you need flash and your browser doesn't have it built in.

Adobe doesn't really offer anything useful anymore, the reader is buggy and huge and flash is being phased out.

Adobe has become Nero, bloated and already on new computers because nobody chooses to install it by choice.

Flash = crap

Flash still crashes constantly here and saps CPU cycles just to display simple animated ads.

Fed Up With Flash and DivX Player ? Try VLC !

Flash and DivX are sucking CPU cycles as if they wanted to simulate a nuclear explosion when looking at a movie. The DiVX thing is nearly fully unusable.

I downloaded an avi movie from a certain site using wget (just look into the html and you will mostly find the url) and then viewed it using VLC. Even on this weak laptop I am using (Celeron CPU), VLC will need less than 30 % CPU for an excellent, sharp full screen movie. More evidence to the theory that the commercialware vendors are just cobbling together inefficient feature-creep-ware.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

VLC uses ffmpeg.

(you can't do streaming, but you have to download the full file before VLC can consume it)

No problem with Adobe products here.

Flash 10.1 is neither buggy nor slow on my HTC EVO 4G. Then again, I don't root or mess with my phone. I just use the apps and functions I need and don't tamper with it. Flash runs fine on both my Core 2 Duo desktop as well as as my four year old Panasonic Toughbook, but then I run my systems lean and mean without bloat. CS 5 runs great on my desktop too. No problems there.

Those of you who are having problems running Adobe software, might want to call Geek Squad and get some tech support. I don't need any.

Great now they are making $$$

So now they should fix their worse in class software (buggy, bloated, slow, and the worst security in the industry). Because after all the best thing to do to do to your Youtube zombie l(users) is help them join a bot herd with drive by ownage.

The Adobe / Flash advantage

I recently realised something really obvious, but equally important.

Flash/Flex is the only developer platform out there which is *totally* cross-platform - and by that I mean you can write a single app and without changing anything more than some packaging options compile it to run on ANY browser, as a desktop app on ANY operating system, and/or have it run on ANY mobile phone (either as flash or packaged for iOS4 / Android as AIR).

That's really damn impressive. Isn't it? People have been hating flash since day 1 (and I used to be one of the worst for that) but actually, it's achieved something other firms have only been able to dream about when it comes to write once run anywhere (and no, not crash everywhere, unless perhaps you can only code turd for a living). That it isn't 100% super optimised is something I can happily live with given the benefit I am increasingly exploiting for my customer's benefit.

The browser plugin / HTML5 war is a total distraction given that anything which can run software is now pretty much by definition internet aware.

Next step for Adobe, embedded systems processors :-)

CPU %

Always wondered about the CPU% as some sort of exact measure for something.

You can use it in an stable environment to check if something funny is happening if the % suddenly is very different.

Put a Unix machine to add ones to a register in a loop, and the % should be about 100.

Then add 100 similar scripts and the % is still about 100.

In other words what is the purpose of a processor if it does not work "wholeheartedly".

With a low % it is probably waiting for IO or something else.