The thing they have up without a fight was Flex, their Rich Internet Application dev framework.
When they abandoned support for it they killed the careers of thousands of developers and removed their chance of dominating web app development.
Flex was miles ahead of what HTML 5 was producing at the time, if they had focused on getting the Flex compiler to output Javascript we would be living in a world where Adobe was synonymous with Web Dev.
When they abandoned support for it they killed the careers of thousands of developers and removed their chance of dominating web app development.
Flex was miles ahead of what HTML 5 was producing at the time, if they had focused on getting the Flex compiler to output Javascript we would be living in a world where Adobe was synonymous with Web Dev.