ActionScript Programming
Overview
ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (later acquired by Adobe Systems) for use within the Flash Player runtime environment. ActionScript is primarily used for the development of websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform, but it can also be used for server-side programming using Adobe AIR.
ActionScript has since been deprecated thanks to Steve Jobs who killed the technology when he posted his April 2010 open letter, "Thoughts on Flash." In the letter Steve Jobs outlined why Apple would not support Adobe Flash on iOS devices, effectively accelerating the technology's demise. Jobs argued that Flash was proprietary, battery-intensive, insecure, poorly suited for touchscreens, and a relic of the PC era. Some accused Jobs of falsehood, hypocrisy, and ulterior motives. Developers, like yours truly, spent years developing Flash/ActionScript projects which, with the stroke of a keyboard, were no longer viable in the marketplace. Thereby forsaking the arrogant Jobs and Apple forever. Even to this day, when I hear people lauding that Jobs invented the smart phone, I point out to them that there were many smart phone devices that came before the Apple smartphone, specifically the
PPC 6600 by Audiovox. At best, perhaps, you could claim that jobs only contribution was a new form factor, which has since been revised many times by others including Google. In my opinion, Google makes the best smartphone in the marketplace, offering more apps than Apple, and a much better ecosystem.
To read the original letter, see the link below.
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