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What I Learned at Slack, Part 1: Peaks and Valleys(medium.com)
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by kberger 15y ago
Another point to keep in mind is that our support of HTML5 and open standards crosses a variety of audiences. The folks who appreciate our contributions to jQuery and WebKit aren't usually the same ones who appreciate the easy visual desig
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by kberger 15y ago
Unfortunately I don't have the detail on our technical roadmap to give this the answer it deserves. I'll see if I can get someone from the Flash team to address this...
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by kberger 15y ago
http://www.quora.com/How-do-large-tech-companies-like-Google...
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by kberger 15y ago
By the way, you can replay the official announcement and see live broadcast of tomorrow's keynote at the Adobe MAX conference here: http://www.max.adobe.com/online/
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by kberger 15y ago
Actually it wasn't contentious at all! Nitobi already had plans to donate to the Apache Foundation, and Adobe already had strong existing relationships with both organizations. We were glad to support that move to reinforce that we're her
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by kberger 15y ago
Nitobi already announced preliminary pricing here: http://www.phonegap.com/2011/09/30/phonegap-build-moves-to-o... We don't have anything else to announce right now.
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by kberger 15y ago
1- It really depends: on the urgency, on the size of the company, on the specific synergies. Big deals can be done quickly if we're confident enough in the high level rationale to figure out the details later. But sometimes the details r
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by kberger 15y ago
It really depends--every company is different and has a different set of dependencies between its employees. Both Typekit and Nitobi have amazing teams that we hope will be with Adobe for a long time.
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by kberger 15y ago
I'm not the right person to speak to overall corporate strategy. For an overview of the context of the announcements today, I would watch the MAX keynote or check out the Creative Cloud product page: http://www.adobe.com/products/creative
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by kberger 15y ago
Hard for me to say since I'm in product management--naturally my focus is on product.
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by kberger 15y ago
It's exactly the properties that made them popular in the first place: Typekit elegantly solves the licensing, technical, and user experience problems of serving rich typography on the web. That's something we've heard repeatedly is import
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by kberger 15y ago
Adobe is strongly supportive of HTML5 and open standards. In fact, we've recently released two tools, Edge and Muse, that are built on HTML and related technologies. We intend to help Typekit continue to grow and continue to leverage open
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by kberger 15y ago
There's a variety of examples here: http://www.phonegap.com/apps I'm also a fan of the Travelocity Android app, which was built with PhoneGap.
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by kberger 15y ago
Well, the first thing to note is that Adobe has not and doesn't intend to acquire PhoneGap itself. PhoneGap is in the process of being contributed to the Apache Software Foundation, and will remain free and open source. That said, we're d
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by kberger 15y ago
Obviously it really depends on the specific circumstances, but often it comes down to time, talent, and community. Sometimes the need is urgent, sometimes there's exceptional talent we'd love to join Adobe, and often there's a community th
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I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA
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