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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by aub3bhat on Sunday December 18, 2016 @02:04AM (#13204706)
Adobe has had a rough decade?

Really, I always assumed that Adobe successfully mitigated all the revenue risk by selling recurring Creative Studio/Cloud licenses, and that Flash was not a big chunk of revenue anymore. I remember Steve Jobs planning to kill Adobe or at least news blog reporting such intentions.[0]

Adobe stock has done pretty well over last half a decade even when compared with Google.[1]

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-wa...

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AADBE%2CGOOGL&ei=2j...

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by bluebknight on Sunday December 18, 2016 @02:45AM (#13204800)
What I found ironic was, I had to enable flash player to see your Google finance link. I guess Flash is still alive in many places.
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by cm2187 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @03:49AM (#13204962)
I don't have the feeling that google finance is live and kicking. I think it's one of those product that will disappear soon. There are lots of broken feeds like:

http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGLDI&ei=Tk1WWKnmH...

I reported some but they did nothing about it.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by JumpCrisscross on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:29AM (#13205045)
> google finance is live and kicking

I work in finance. It's a last resort. It should be front page, but it was ignored for too many years. I think I see it once or twice a year, now.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by cm2187 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:32AM (#13205051)
I actually went to google finance where I could get live price feed when yahoo and my bloomberg terminal had 15min delays. Now even yahoo has live feeds too.
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by inuhj on Sunday December 18, 2016 @09:37PM (#13209129)
Yahoo finance came first and has always been better.
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by Spooky23 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @09:34AM (#13205913)
Whomever was scratching a personal itch with Google Finance at Google is probably rich enough to have people worry about such things now.

I end up using my broker for charting, as most of the free ones suck.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by csomar on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:06AM (#13205337)
Two things here:

1. It's because Google finance is old and probably forgotten. Really answers the OP question why it's not a good idea to kill flash right now.

2. Have been trading for a while and can tell that the performance of that chart beat the hell out of any JavaScript charting tool out there. It's interesting that JS/HTML 5 is all the hype now but it's still lagging behind a 10 year old technology.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by jayflux on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:17AM (#13205369)
Yeah, i do find it odd that Google finance (which is used quite a bit i believe) hasn't had any life breathed into it. I'm sure its had the same design for the last decade now
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by brianwawok on Sunday December 18, 2016 @09:14AM (#13205849)
Doubt it makes enough money to move the needle.
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by Nanite on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:32AM (#13205564)
While they seemed to have abandoned Google Finance and left it in flash limbo, they do seem to be using HTML5 for stock charting whey you query google for: "company name" quote
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by vacri on Sunday December 18, 2016 @03:11AM (#13204862)
The last version before subscriptions came in, it was cheaper to fly return Australia -> US and purchase a copy of Photoshop, than it was to just purchase one locally here in Aus.

Adobe can stand to have a rougher time of it, IMO...

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by semi-extrinsic on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:54AM (#13205119)
In other words, someone could've made a killing selling US Photoshop on ebay?
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by chris_wot on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:48AM (#13205281)
Probably, and then they would have had their account pulled and a cease and desist letter sent.

This is why Australians have fought hard against geoblocking, and on similar lines why SciHub is around.

I have zero sympathy for Adobe.