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Originally Posted by kartu
Adobe is crazy doing this, if they actually want to keep flash business.
Note that they aren't making money on Flash itself, but only on tools to create it.
If they want to make money selling HTML5 authoring tools instead, uhm, that's very optimistic of them, good luck.
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Well, Adobe was pretty clear on this-they were losing money on supporting mobile Flash on so many platforms, and didn't see a future scenario where they could stop losing money.
In other words, the cost of supporting the "free" mobile Flash was much higher than the earnings from providing the tools/server side business.
The advantage of providing HTML5 authoring tools is-they don't have the financial burden of also being the sole supporters of a proprietary platform.
Instead, they can focus on helping to guide an open platform, and provide the best-of-class tools for creating for it, similar to how they are working with ePub.