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The number of mobile phones out there is staggering, and a lot of developers are aiming to cater for these new market opportunity.

And funny thing, mobile phone users tend to waste more money than web users, they’re more inclined to buy a $5-$10 mini gimpy game for their spiffy blackberry than paying a $1 micro transaction fee to pay a starving flash game developer.

Silently, mobile content providers are reaping millions of profit without anyone knowing it. Its a fact, I know a guy whose monthly income is in the 5 figure range just by selling mobile contents.

And I think Adobe stance in this is more like what Microsoft was thinking when they went into console gaming, “If we don’t start now, we will never get a share of the pie”, as Java is dominating the mobile application industry, just like Playstation was dominating the console industry.

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-2909

I’d like to say that we also can play mp3 files reverse, wich can bring so fun applications.

Keep up the great job !

The only good thing that could come of this for the mainstream web application developer is adobe will have to find ways to decrease processor loads and ram usage which could end up resulting in a much more efficient platform. However, I’m not interested in mobile either and my greatest fear is that while adobe pushes into the already bustling mobile dev world, google and other java supporters will push the capabilities of java past what we have devoted our lives to learning. I remember the excitement of the AS community when AS3.0 finally arrived and I miss it and am starting to get concerned about the future of flash.

However, I strongly beleive that the future of flash will greatly lie in the hands of proven critics and gurus that demand new capabilities and enhancements that are not only resonable but necessary to the continued growth and enthusiasm of an extremely dedicated generation of developers that literally grew up in the flash world.

I think that adobe should push their efforts more toward the long-term commited developers who have extended flash far past what it is really capable of. What about helping out the 3d community? These people have lost hair trying to revolutionize as3.0 into something that seems like it shouldn’t even be possible, and while everytime I click on a pv3d or altertiva3d website link in great anticipation that all the fluttering and fps problems have magically been fixed by some flash/flex guru…..I am still waiting on adobe to freakin’ help these guys out.

Their are soo many things that adobe could be concentrating on to continue this ongoing revolution so I hope that you will make some more noise and be a voice for all of us out there that have not been as visible, political, and blog driven as you have.

Thanks for all your inspiring work

Myself I would never compile Tamarin or made some changes in AS3 compiler. It is out of my league. What pissing me off is Adobe’s inability to polish AS3 and API. They have too much bugs, too much inconsistencies, and documentation is not sufficient. Adobe just moved forward, and that is behavior inherited from Macromedia. I have feeling that they don’t care. Just because 90% of developers doesn’t care. I care.

I care cause 70% of my development time goes in hacking Flash. Trying to force Flash to do what is supposed to do. 90% testing time goes in performance testings ’cause there’s no destructor. Whole language has beta feel for me.

For Adobe (formerly Macromedia) it isn’t a big issue. They are happy as long designers can make “stunning” RIA or any fool can make “stunning” RIA. So, they have a Flex. If I wanted do make RIA using tags, why would I use Flex? HTML+JS+XMLHttp does very good job for me.

I’m not a top-notch developer as you are. Maybe I’ll never be. I know that your effort (which is out of my scope) will make as3 development more comfortable for me.

My heart is still in Flash but I’ve moved on to more powerful tools for the job. When I started doing more advanced graphical computations I finally took the plunge in using straight C programming and using powerful open source libraries like SDL. I just think you need to move on at this point. There are more powerful and expressive languages out there that let you get away with way more than Flash/ActionScript ever will let you. Just my 2 cents!

Slow and buggy ide’s ( cs3, cs4 )

Bread and butter elements such as buttons etc are over complicated.

Terrible compiler errors when coding on the timeline.

And finally that as3 is faster than as2, yes it is faster at looping an array of 1000000 points etc. But I develop alot of photography sites and the first thing I tested when as3 came out was its ability to transition large images and I found barely any difference.

Language / VM:
- 2 byte signed/unsigned integer
- Variables within interfaces
- Abstract classes
- Much faster method calls, they are really really slow

Features:
- Netstream.loadBytes();
- ByteArray referencing (no need to create new bytearray)
- More methods added to the BitmapData class, the set that’s there right now is too limited.
- Scale9 and bitmaps?
- Video/Image processing via pixelbender is useless in flash. 20fps on a 320×240 image returning the same color per pixel?
- Faster marshaling for Alchemy

This is hard to believe.

However I guess, there is a way to support more native system cursors. Even Javascript supports more cursors. The current three built-in does not make a big difference.