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Adobe Flash Player download.

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
January 14, 2013
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taugust04
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Ugh - just a heads up to the nation. I went to download Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.146 today from get.adobe.com/flashplayer, and rather than getting the standard disk image from Adobe, you now get this garbage Google Chrome install option that you have to uncheck, along with the a 'new and improved' Flash Player installer that has to download a payload from the Internet, and will fail if you don't close Safari first before it begins it's install. This is in comparison to a regular DMG you could just click and install in the past (and extract a .pkg from by just examining the contents of the installer executable.)

I'm sure now we'll have to figure out where exactly the Adobe Flash Player.pkg package is being installed to and somehow save that, or we'll have to go back to creating Composer snapshots.

Thanks Adobe.

~Ted

Best answer by donmontalvo

FYI

http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/still-more-on-flash-installers/

I doubt Adobe would spend the money training their Offshore'd dev team, on how to properly package software for the Mac platform.

It boils down to money (any spent on training is money out of shareholder coffers), and you have to consider the rotating-door-employment aspect of "do it as cheaply as possible" work environments. ;)

So it will continue to suck...reversely proportional to how loudly the Mac admin community publicly lambasts Adobe...the more we complain, the more they take us seriously and do something about it (or at least try). So we will continue to subsidize Adobe's incapable (read: cheap) Offshore'd dev staff, while things change for the better...a little bit at a time...

PS, no reflection on Jody/Karl...if anything, they've worked very hard to limit our frustration...but not possible to turn a big ship on a dime...at least not as fast as we would like.

Don

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donmontalvo
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Forum|Forum|12 years ago
April 12, 2013

It's Adobe's old "One code set across platforms so we save money, let those pesky Mac admins subsidize our development, they like doing that" strategy, with a twist of "Gotta look busy, quick, someone create a bizarre new policy so we can continue to look like we're getting paid for being proactive" and a side of "Why make things easier, gotta steer them to our 'revenue-healthy' cloud service" trick.

</Maxwell Smart>

Wait...did you know...

"Creative Cloud is the future." - Adobe Monopoly CEO (dancing on a mountain of rupees)

<tongue-in-cheek>

--https://donmontalvo.com

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mm2270
Legendary Contributor
Forum|Forum|12 years ago
April 12, 2013

Adobe Monopoly CEO (dancing on a mountain of rupees)

Now THAT made me LOL! :D
Though I doubt Mr "Creative Cloud is the future!!" Narayen dances at all. Seems like too much of a stiff to do something like that. Maybe that's why I found that image so funny :)

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tkimpton
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Forum|Forum|12 years ago
April 13, 2013

No response from Adobe and my application again to distribute Flash! I think I've pi**ed them off too much over the years.

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pickerin
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Forum|Forum|12 years ago
April 15, 2013

@tkimpton I got mine in about an hour. However, they require that you validate your email FIRST. If you don't perform that validation, you'll never hear back from them. Mine was in my spam folder.