Tony

On 8 February 20= 12 19:44, Benny Christensen <bennychristensen@me.com> wrote:

I know but it is not just Adobe or Apple. It = is part of the deal we made with the devil for faster, higher quality web v= ideo.

You can't single out any one company. He= should also complain to YouTube because the modern codecs they use are too= data intensive to play back on my 1999 iMac. But I think that we can all a= gree that the codecs if today are way better than the Flash, Real Video and= Quicklime we were able to watch in 1999.

To complain that modern software and codecs need to be = backward compatible puts you firmly in the Microsoft arena and even they ar= e trying to kill antiquated browsers because they can't keep up.

Even the whole change to digital TV is part of this. By= making analog TV's obsolete the industry forced everyone to upgrade. = =A0 I promise you that not one of the LCD's I'm using today will la= st anywhere near as long as my mother in laws old Magnavox or Sony CRT. And= just wait until all the TVs are Internet Appliances.=A0

I'm not saying that it is necessarily right, but at= some point you have to face the reality that this is the way it is.=A0

Benny Christensen

Pr= oducers Playhouse

On Feb 8= , 2012, at 2:04 AM, Tony Hayes <tony@cleverbits.com> wrote:

I think you'll find Joe is annoyed about adobe no longer updating = flash on PPC macs, he has a point, as I found out last year no one makes br= owsers for PPC macs either, Joe should actually be pissed at apple, he woul= dn't have this problem to anywhere near the same extent if he owned a p= c.

Tony

On 8 February 2012 18:40, Benny Christen= sen <bennychristensen@me.com> wrote:

What you are complaining about, planned obsol= escence, is the basis of the whole computer industry.=A0

If you have a working computer with a working piece of software, yan= k it off the Internet, freeze it in time and work it until the transistors = melt. There's no one stopping you.=A0

I have routinely waited and upgraded about every other = time Adobe or Apple thought I should. If I can afford the new thing and I f= eel that it will make me money I'll jump, otherwise I'll wait.=A0

There's no law that says you have to buy the latest= labor saving, gee whiz piece of software. So just save your money and use = what is working for you.

Benny Christensen
Producers Play= house

On Feb 7, 2012, at 10:39 PM, joe cafe <cafe.joe@gmail.com= > wrote:

<= ;On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Carey Dissmore=A0<carey@imugonline.com= >=A0wrote:

Wow, really?>

apologies for the delayed= response. =A0You are assuming that everyone who wants to watch a Flash mov= ie is at the edge of motion graphics, with cash to burn on perpetual hardwa= re investment.
In fact, there are students, and yes, unemployed people. (we are in a depre= ssed economy, you know) =A0Their ppcs work just fine for them, and Adobe is= prodding them to shell out thousands of dollars every few years, or beat i= t.

That is rather heartless.
Then there are those of us who are= moving on to other careers, that don't pay so well, but are =A0more sa= tisfying. =A0We continue to do a bit of work, but it simply would not make = sense to buy the newest and greatest when what we have is in fine working o= rder.

Maybe Adobe doesn't mean to be evil, but they could at least wait = until the economy is healthy before pulling what could only be called, in t= his economy, a bullying tactic.

Apple did an architecture shift for better performance, managed a "uni= versal" operating environment for 5 or 6 years, finally decides it'= ;s time to move on, and developers do the same...and this makes them evil?<= br>
Sheesh.

Carey

On Feb 4, 2012, at 11:49 AM, joe cafe wrote:

> How evil can you get.
> It isn't enough that Adobe updates its software so that it can'= ;t be used on PPCs.
> Now, you can't view a new Flash movie. =A0Adobe is not making Flas= h updates for PPCs.
>

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