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March 4, 2008
Lynch interview
Lynch interview: Darryl Taft of eWeek interviews Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, post-AIR (single-page view). Big shocker: Daily successful Player installations are now averaging twelve million each day. That's up from quotes of 8M/day last year. These aren't "downloads", these are successfully completed installations. Doesn't really get us much further in distribution (only 2-3% of people don't already have Player 9), but definitely speeds your use of new abilities without audience pain. Very significant... an audience of over a hundred million can now use the persistent framework caching in Flex 3, for instance, and should reach 200,000,000 by June. The interview has many more topics (and a few typos), but here's a great quote: "The more diversity in operating systems, the better off Adobe is, because we make software that runs across operating systems. Whether that's Reader and PDF or it's Flash Player and AIR, one of the things that people really like about the software we make is that it works really well regardless of which OS you have."
Posted by JohnDowdell at March 4, 2008 7:27 AM