Have you heard back from the Flash Player, or MAX teams about the questions yet? I’m curious as to their answers, especially since they said they were going to write something up back in October.

Thanks!

Then the treatment of some community members as for example hobnox who had to suffer severe headaches because they relied on Adobes noise, before Adobe decided to change the api without telling anyone.

Yay, no update, let’s make a new release!

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus said

although he was a musician i’m sure he would have hard time using the flash cs4.

I think Adobe can take a few pointers from Apple and Blizzard. I like Blizzard more for their pricing and quality. Apple has a bigger task but I think they’re finding a good balance in terms of their quality and production, pricing in terms of hardware… not so sure. Apple software (software made by Apple, not for Apple), yes.

Time: Should not be an issue if you want quality. We don’t mind waiting for a quality product.
Quality: Yes please but may take more time. Don’t really mind waiting.
Cost: Yes, it may cost you more but in the end, it WILL make you more if you don’t charge hectic prices and get more of the market.

Which is more? (just an example)

1000 ppl x $20000 (decrease in market due to price and availability of pirate software)

or

1 000 000 x $100 (increase in market and loyalty as it is affordable and of high standards)

I guesstimate the real world stats to be something more like:

1 100 000 x $200(US) + 2 200 000 x $300(Rest of world)

or

7 600 000 x $100 (Everyone)

I’m probably off by a lot as there are more upcoming business owners, entrepreneurs, developers, artists and students than that, probably take my guesstimate and multiply it by 10-20, anyways, you get my point. Don’t forget about China! ; )

Lee & Dev team, keep up the good work. (3 thumbs up, I don’t have a 3rd but if I did ; )

just want to express my sadness that workflow is more broken than ever, and big hug to adobe team that should be feeling really bad about community disappointment.

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Anyways, obviously this post ain’t about PC’s vs Macs

It’s interesting (worrying) to read Jonathon’s comments about how CS4 is performing though.

Many other users are experiencing similar problems and several Boards on the internet are talking about it for example users at Flash KIT community and the Kirupa community. Including a Multi award winning flash animator that is now saying he might skip the CS4 experience all together.

Don’t get me wrong it is an incredible application and the workspace is in my opinion awesome, the animation module is great and the new features unlike many other users have said are extremely useful but it is Broken man you can have all the best tools in the world and if you can’t use them then what’s the point?

Why would Adobe’s Flash team release such an unstable version of the software?

Will these problems be resolved in a timely manner?

Will we be able to thrust adobe to produce complete work environment capable applications to us in the feature before we make an investment in the name we have trusted but has let us down so badly this time?

Sorry for the harsh words and thank you for providing a helping hand and for being the voice of a hurting community.

As for now we have reverted to using the CS3 environment till Adobe provides us with a more stable application.

Thanks Jonathan Cruz.