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24 Predictions for Adobe MAX 2009

• Flash Player for iPhone (announcement/demo)
  Prediction Rating: B+



• Mobile Flash Player, Mobile AIR & SDK tools (labs release for Android, Symbian and Win Mobile)
  Prediction Rating: A+



• Adobe AIR 2.0
  Prediction Rating: A+



• Flex Mobile Components
  Prediction Rating: B



• AS3 multi-touch API
  Prediction Rating: A+



• Simple AS3 Callbacks API. (The stuff some people miss from AS2)
  Prediction Rating: D



• New supported Flash video codecs (eg. Theora)
  Prediction Rating: D



• AS3 Threading API
  Prediction Rating: C



• Flash Catalyst is being rewritten to be useful
  Prediction Rating: F



• Flash executes Pixel Bender shaders on the GPU
  Prediction Rating: B+



• All the old built-in bitmap filters have been upgraded to use Pixel Bender
  Prediction Rating: C



• Flash Player GPU accelerated rendering
  Prediction Rating: B+



• Flash Player GPU accelerated video decoding
  Prediction Rating: A



• AS3 OpenGL ES bindings that draw to pixel buffers (bitmaps)
  Prediction Rating: B



• Additional AS3 P2P APIs. Maybe to aid in creating MMO games.
  Prediction Rating: C



• ActionScript 3.5 (generics, method overloading, Lambda expressions, Generators, Object initializers, operator overloading, etc)
  Prediction Rating: D



• The introduction of coding Flash in other/new languages. This might also include new micro-formats for the timeline.
  Prediction Rating: F



• Flash Professional will be renamed to Flash Animator. The Flash platform tools will be sold in a package named Flash ABC (Animator-Builder-Catalyst).
  Prediction Rating: D



• Flash Player in the Cloud; Thin HTML5 client.
  Prediction Rating: F



• AIR versions of Acrobat.com apps such as Buzzword
  Prediction Rating: C



• Brand New HTML5 IDE for creating Flash like experiences.
  Prediction Rating: C



• Stereoscopic 3D DisplayList projection filter in Flash
  Prediction Rating: F



• Ability to create and distribute new Tools for Flash Professional (why did we have to wait for IK and the deco tools)
  Prediction Rating: D



• The Flash community will lose Phillip Kerman to Hollywood
  Prediction Rating: bingo!

What are your wild predictions?

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