Dan Grossman » native web apps http://www.dangrossman.info Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:19:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 What is Adobe thinking not supporting new computers? http://www.dangrossman.info/2008/10/26/what-is-adobe-thinking-not-supporting-new-computers/ http://www.dangrossman.info/2008/10/26/what-is-adobe-thinking-not-supporting-new-computers/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:50:53 +0000 Dan http://www.dangrossman.info/?p=288 I just bought my new computer, an HP m9350f, a month ago and installed Firefox and Opera as part of my first day setup. I have a Netflix subscription that I use primarily to watch streaming movies, usually on my computer in the living room, not the one in my bedroom. Netflix only streams with a plugin for Internet Explorer, so I wasn’t using Firefox, and decided to head over to Hulu to check out their collection.

I needed to download the Flash plugin for Internet Explorer. No big deal. I head over to the site, and instead of the expected “security bar” popping up asking for permission to install a plugin, I’m greeted with this message:

Adobe Flash 64-bit Error

Adobe is battling for marketshare with Silverlight, and JavaScript in native web apps as the rendering engines become faster, and they don’t support new computers? Half of the new systems at Best Buy and Circuit City come with a 64-bit version of Windows Vista in order to support the higher amounts of RAM they now come with. What is Adobe thinking?

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