Re: FLASH: CD Rom production - Director is so bogus

[Gregg Caines]

I think King is saying that your analogy doesn't really 

help your argument...he seems right to me...


> hmmm, while we talking about why cant director make exe's

> for both platforms, i was wondering why I cant just run my

 > Photoshop 5 for PC on the Mac too?


> duh, hello people?


> <g>


You likened the ability to run the _output_ of director 

on both platforms to running photoshop on both 

platforms, and clearly comparing those two things is 

like comparing apples to oranges (to use another 

analogy) since one is output and the other is the core 

program.


> OKay flash standalone exe's are different,

> but its a completely different thing to director. Flash can

> do it, so why cant director? Well, director and flash are

> different authoring environments, for different purposes.

> They each have their own merits. But Director has many more

> sytem resources asked of it, it has to have the capacity to

> do far more complex tasks.


How is it completely different?  How does this prove 

your point?  Macromedia could bundle Mac and PC 

versions of Director together like they do with Flash... 

it's not only possible, but it's also easy to do without 

any extra development effort (just put both CDs in one 

box!).


So clearly MM is only doing this for the money.  I don't 

have a problem with that though, because that's 

business.  If they didn't make money, then they wouldn't 

exist and we couldn't use their cool software...  And if they 

didn't make _me_ money, then I wouldn't buy it anyway...


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

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