Adobe Air Dead?

I believe that Adobe Air is now going to be a Harman product (Samsung company?) and essentially a dead product to still be able to get Flash content out there as far as Adobe is concerned. I have to wonder with this transition to Harman, if it will even survive long there.

I haven't used Flash in a looonnnngg time commercially (did some animated shorts when I was doing that type of animation (although still prefer good ole frame by frame and what I've gone back to now)), but I know some used Air to deploy Flash content.

I'm sure some hated Flash with a passion (if someone wasn't good with it, it could be exceptionally bloated that's for sure, but it was based more on the person creating the content more then the platform it self) and the flash plugin (the plugin only) has been the source of vectors of malware on all 3 major platforms, but I'll still miss it.

I know, I'm strange that way, but I'll miss it. One of the earliest platforms that I used for creating games (I'm big on nostalgia as some may be aware by now).

 

Oh yea, no question HTML5 is better. That's what I use for my web games is HTML5 (easy export from Armory3D, Godot and/or GDevelop).

It just fills like an end of a era (probably some are thinking "Finally!!!").