... even more strictly, there's currently 6.75 billion people on the planet, but still less than one billion computers. Mobile pricing is coming down, and we're reaching a wider percentage than before, but there's still more to go.

(And yes, I agree that there are very low audience costs when using Flex 2 for development today. Some people on the boards still aren't up-to-date with the news, though, so we've gotta keep repeating it.... ;-)

jd/adobe

Actually, having just been through a painful process of having a Flex app on our homepage and watching our traffic plummet and then finding out it was because the people coming to our site were not able to view it with their version of Flash *and* finding out the Flash upgrade process was broken for many users- I'd say Adobromedia are playing funny with their numbers like they usually do.

And you know full well the fun they play with those penetration numbers.

And after we removed the Flex app, our traffic returned to normal. The problem was definitely with Flex and the Player. I've got no beef, I've got the facts that our 'consumer net norm(?)' Flex 2 app failed. And that old moniker of read the docs doesn't fly here. I know that usually works to ward of the script kiddies but it still frankly insults those of us who have been mired in the documentation since Beta.

So while it's nice that they say that 90% *can* view the site, that reality does not pan out. We were intimately involved with Adobe during dev and release and they acknowledged all the problems we had were the result of bugs they knew about- including the upgrade problems.

It will be fun to use Flex when it is mature. Maybe when they open up those sources? Letting people have access to those can only help Flex mature faster...

Let's just walk along the river to the ball park while you smoke your pipe and wax brilliantly philosophical. Good enough? Remember when we moved to to Borg Cube? I could go on. Truth is now I have a much better relationship with Adobromedia since having left. They have been very helpful in tracking the life of these bugs and have addressed at least two of them. It's funny that they treat you more respectfully as a customer than an employee- but that is a different discussion.

We are happily coding around the remaining problems and love that you can create your own libraries and not have to rely on the bulky Flex ones. Flex3 with that 48k runtime will be interesting.

What about open sourcing some system stuff so we can write our own? I'd really like a FULL featured Sound object... I even remember getting emails about that wayyyy back in 99.

As far as the numbers go- it's precisely misrepresentation of what the numbers mean. The numbers themselves are only as perfect as what they measure- which is obviously an incomplete data set.

I just stumbled upon this blog. Hopefully someone can help.

Will Google Analytics track a website built entirely in Flex? Conversion rates and all? We are deciding whether to build a "reservation booking engine" in Flex and our contracted software developers are trying to sell us on this. What do you think?

Thanks,

Bob