Re:Users hate change
by sah2ed on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:30PM
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But it is only a matter of time. Once webassembly achieves near feature parity with the native versions, you bet Adobe will switch users to the webassembly version.
From Adobe's perspective, it offers a lot of benefits:
- they don't have maintain build farms or pay a CDN to host GBs of binaries of native installers (for different OSes);
- users will always be on the latest (read: most secure) version since there is nothing to install or nag the user to check for updates/apply security patches;
- browser-dependence implies near-persistent Internet access, making license management/enforcement a whole lot easier;
- they can upsell you on cloud storage so that all your assets are available from any web browser.
From Adobe's perspective, it offers a lot of benefits:
- they don't have maintain build farms or pay a CDN to host GBs of binaries of native installers (for different OSes);
- users will always be on the latest (read: most secure) version since there is nothing to install or nag the user to check for updates/apply security patches;
- browser-dependence implies near-persistent Internet access, making license management/enforcement a whole lot easier;
- they can upsell you on cloud storage so that all your assets are available from any web browser.