famousringo on 29 April 2010
| Slimebeast said: ^^ ^ Okay thanks. Another question. How can Adobe make money with a thing like Flash? I never understood that. Where is the revenue exactly, since it's free for everyone? |
They sell software. Flash Media Server to stream the content, Flash Professional to design Flash apps, the AIR development platform. These are very expensive programs, and when you have a lot of control of rich media on the web and an install base larger than Windows, you can make a lot of money selling them.
To put it another way, Flash is free to consumers, but content creators and distributors pay Adobe, and nobody but Adobe because they control the platform, big bucks.
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