24 Predictions for Adobe MAX 2009
- Flash Player for iPhone (announcement/demo)
Prediction Rating: B+ - Mobile Flash Player, Mobile AIR & SDK tools (labs release for Android, Symbian and Win Mobile)
Prediction Rating: A+ - Adobe AIR 2.0
Prediction Rating: A+ - Flex Mobile Components
Prediction Rating: B - AS3 multi-touch API
Prediction Rating: A+ - Simple AS3 Callbacks API. (The stuff some people miss from AS2)
Prediction Rating: D - New supported Flash video codecs (eg. Theora)
Prediction Rating: D - AS3 Threading API
Prediction Rating: C - Flash Catalyst is being rewritten to be useful
Prediction Rating: F - Flash executes Pixel Bender shaders on the GPU
Prediction Rating: B+ - All the old built-in bitmap filters have been upgraded to use Pixel Bender
Prediction Rating: C - Flash Player GPU accelerated rendering
Prediction Rating: B+ - Flash Player GPU accelerated video decoding
Prediction Rating: A - AS3 OpenGL ES bindings that draw to pixel buffers (bitmaps)
Prediction Rating: B - Additional AS3 P2P APIs. Maybe to aid in creating MMO games.
Prediction Rating: C - ActionScript 3.5 (generics, method overloading, Lambda expressions, Generators, Object initializers, operator overloading, etc)
Prediction Rating: D - The introduction of coding Flash in other/new languages. This might also include new micro-formats for the timeline.
Prediction Rating: F - Flash Professional will be renamed to Flash Animator. The Flash platform tools will be sold in a package named Flash ABC (Animator-Builder-Catalyst).
Prediction Rating: D - Flash Player in the Cloud; Thin HTML5 client.
Prediction Rating: F - AIR versions of Acrobat.com apps such as Buzzword
Prediction Rating: C - Brand New HTML5 IDE for creating Flash like experiences.
Prediction Rating: C - Stereoscopic 3D DisplayList projection filter in Flash
Prediction Rating: F - Ability to create and distribute new Tools for Flash Professional (why did we have to wait for IK and the deco tools)
Prediction Rating: D - The Flash community will lose Phillip Kerman to Hollywood
Prediction Rating: bingo!
What are your wild predictions?
No alchemy and/or c libraries support on the list??
1.) The theme of the conference will be Designers vs. Developers. I think there will be a parity of Star Trek vs. Star Wars that plays out throughout the conference. Of course Designers are Trekies and programmers are the more sophisticated Star Wars fans.
2.) Multi-Touch native input support. How can you go mobil without multi-touch native support..
You should increase some of your grades! ;-)
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Most of the great ideas for Flash are summarized here. I like the kind of humor you applied to some entries. I had a lot of fun reading this.
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You forgot Webkit being embedded in Flash player, allowing standard compliant display of pages in IE: c- ~ lol
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Haha, awesome. I'd love to see this list broken down into priorities, you basically covered most of the Flash enhancements I hear people wanting.
Also, the last one is a given. I think Phillip is going big time.
See you at MAX Alex!
=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com
thanks allot
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