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To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org

Hi,

at first, I think the way to send flash runtime evangelists to a world =
wide tour is a good step.
But the negative point is, that you are only showing demos, we all have =
already seen.
The informations you have provided are all facts, which we already can =
read in the whitepapers.

But we need clear future informations.
A speech like we are focusing on this, and when we will optimize this is =
nice, is okay.
But not really more I think.

Since the PR disaster around the stop of development of Flash Player =
mobile,
everybody in the management of our client companies is thinking flash =
and AIR is a sinking ship.

To have the possibility to argue against this we need more exact =
informations.

There are 2 points, which are very important for us:
1. Please update monthly the adobe site about the flash player =
penetration,
this is one of the primary fact for every decision maker.
2. Adobe is telling since around 2 months, that there are discussions =
with Microsoft,
about AIR support in Windows 8 RT, whats the progress?

Since the start of this your I heard from our clients the question about =
flash player penetration more often when ever ago,
when I answer, there are no new informations about this from Adobe, the =
most clients are thinking for there self:
Okay flash is dead and Adobe is afraid of publishing the actual stats.

Like: You can not not communicate.


Additional tablet pcs are the future, there is a big push from the =
html5-based native apps like sencha and phonegap.
If a client today thinks about starting a new project, he want to use a =
technic with a feature and the future is cross device.

So the future of AIR, I think, is coupled with support of Windows 8 RT.

Without a wide range of supported devices / OS's I see no really future =
for AIR, Flash and so also Flex.

The information are requested in blogs, at the forums and at the Flash =
Runtime events,
but there was never any answer from Adobe.

So it seems for us and our clients, like Adobe will, that we struggle =
through the fog.=