Flash and the Ugliness that surrounds it
Typically the word Adobe used in a sentence feels me full of fright from nightmares of Adobe Products being installed and watching the system resources completely diminish on any great Server or Desktop including Apple OS’s.
Let’s just talk about Adobe for a second. Here is a company with great ideas and a great means. The idea of tools like Photoshop (not sure I can say that without paying royalties), AIR and Flex are brilliant. Yes I just said brilliant. However being a developer of all kinds of technologies (this means I have developed using Adobe as well as SUN technologies not just microsoft). Adobe was always had great ideas but poorly implemented. This can be said for Java as well (I will rant later on this).
I have always felt flash left something to be desired. Once again I have written a few small applications in flash. To be honest using flash 4 (yes it was old and very outdated. Scripting was only a thought). It is and was very clunky to write in excuse 
me I mean add animations.
Flash is a ways or a means to deliver content using animations or using video and compress it so that it should be faster smarter and better than a means such as AVI or DIVX/XVID. In this realm it does well, making the video smaller and more available without installing more codex’s to run video over the web (take all your favorite video sites as an example(youtube). It is also nice to run on any type of web site using any and all technologies. Hats off to Adobe for this. However Adobe Flash is a serious bandwidth hog and slows down a clients web browsing experience. I have to admit there is ways of compressing these files to be less um hoggy if you will. However it seems since only designers like to use and “devisign” (Develop + Design = devisign) in it. Most designers don’t use compression or like to make these files smaller cause it might take away from the “Artsy” work they have done.
Things that Adobe could fix in my humble opinion are:
-Enable better compression
-Use or I guess copy the Silverlight model of tiny sized bits to be served for great quality and less bandwidth hogging.
-Add a set of standards for you developers oops.. devisigners!
-No more splash screens using Flash PLEASE! (this goes for all you web designers stop it. It is ugly and making the web ugly.)
Also Adobe could you please de-junk Acrobat. It is crazy crapware that I will not install. Learn from Foxit Software please.
