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How many Flash developers are really out there?

Posted on March 29th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Flash Lite, Adobe.

So I was reading this article on Flash Lite at RCR news and ran into this interesting line:

Perhaps most importantly, though, Flash has the benefit of a community of more than 1.3 million developers, many of them game-makers

Oh really? Hmm. I’ve seen Adobe say something like there are 2 million+ Flash developers out there, some estimates say over 3 million, but regardless of the number I wouldn’t say that “many” of them are “game-makers”. Most seem to be still doing web work for Agencies or interactive CD-ROMS, integrating Flash with PHP, doing Flash Video stuff, etc.

But I continued pondering these mysterious numbers and asked another question. How many mobile Flash developers are out there? Any guesses?

I think that as more carriers like Verizon and Docomo commit to Flash-based technologies the numbers will go up. Device Central and CS3 should also help with that, but ultimately I think that Adobe needs to convert some of those hardcore Java, BREW, and Symbian developers in order to really take over the mobile world.

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