Comments on: Thoughts on Commercial Ecosystem for the Flash Platform http://www.arpitonline.com/blog/2009/09/29/thoughts-on-commercial-ecosystem-for-the-flash-platform/ "I write pretty software" Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:34:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan Stewart http://www.arpitonline.com/blog/2009/09/29/thoughts-on-commercial-ecosystem-for-the-flash-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-63254 Ryan Stewart Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:01:14 +0000 http://www.arpitonline.com/blog/?p=356#comment-63254 Good post. As a big company in transition into the services world there are definitely going to be cases where we end up competing with some of the people building on our platform. What I hope we do is never ever pull the "we have the Flash Platform so we get awesome extra stuff" like we did with the Connect add-in. As long as we're competing on a level playing field with the competitors who are using our platform then I think ultimately the user wins. But the screen-sharing plugin is a perfect example of where we can lose developer trust by playing by a different set of rules when we build something. It would also be great to see more of Adobe's services open up via APIs so that we can build up a 3rd party ecosystem around those services as well as the platform. See you in November! =Ryan ryan@adobe.com Good post. As a big company in transition into the services world there are definitely going to be cases where we end up competing with some of the people building on our platform.

What I hope we do is never ever pull the “we have the Flash Platform so we get awesome extra stuff” like we did with the Connect add-in. As long as we’re competing on a level playing field with the competitors who are using our platform then I think ultimately the user wins.

But the screen-sharing plugin is a perfect example of where we can lose developer trust by playing by a different set of rules when we build something.

It would also be great to see more of Adobe’s services open up via APIs so that we can build up a 3rd party ecosystem around those services as well as the platform.

See you in November!

=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com

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