Adobe to Kill ‘FLASH’, but by Just Renaming it as ‘Adobe Animate CC’ – The Hacker News

Adobe to Kill ‘FLASH’ by Just Renaming it as ‘Adobe Animate CC’

“What it won’t bring is:

Fix for the number of security issues that have plagued Adobe Flash for years

The platform has a new name, but the development tool lives on.

So, Flash isn’t actually dead; it’s just renamed.

“Adobe’s strategy is to make money regardless of what happens in the market,” says Jeffrey Hammonds, principal analyst at Forrester Research. “They understand that there is a slow transition to HTML5 going on.”

“At some point you have to embrace the change,” Hammond adds. “The rebranding is the visible sign of that, but the internal focus on supporting the technologies like HTML5 has been going on a while.”

So, hiding Flash behind a different name doesn’t solve the stability and security issues. In fact, a recently uncovered flaw in the software was so nasty that the only way to get rid of it was to completely uninstall Flash Player.”


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