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Adobe is shutting down its “Animate” product <https://www.theverge.com/news/872731/adobe-animate-app-shutdown-date>.
This was basically a reworking of Flash after it had dropped out of
use for online web animations. It’s really surprising to keep reading
things like this:

The creators behind the short-form animated series Chikn Nuggit
write in a post on X that they still use Adobe Animate to make the
show. “This decision would not only harm countless jobs in the
industry but render so much past creations as lost media,” the
post reads. David Firth, the creator of Salad Fingers, also says
he still uses the app to make the grotesque series.

Megacharlie, a technical artist for Jackbox Games, adds that the
app “is used in many high-budget television cartoon productions,
film and animation studios, game studios big and small, not to
mention the 1000s of indie creators who still make use of it
daily.”

Being creatives, I assume they are Mac users. Is that why they’re
incapable of learning the lesson about not becoming too dependent
on proprietary products?
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 21:40:53 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

Adobe is shutting down its “Animate” product

Being creatives, I assume they are Mac users. Is that why they’re
incapable of learning the lesson about not becoming too dependent
on proprietary products?

"Creatives?" Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

The only "creativity" that these losers can muster is to select
an appropriate boilerplate or template. That's why all websites
look the same, all PR reports sound the same, and all commercial
ads appear the same. In these fields, "AI" has long been the dominant
and only practice.
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

On 2026-02-03 13:40, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

Adobe is shutting down its “Animate” product <https://www.theverge.com/news/872731/adobe-animate-app-shutdown-date>.
This was basically a reworking of Flash after it had dropped out of
use for online web animations. It’s really surprising to keep reading things like this:

The creators behind the short-form animated series Chikn Nuggit
write in a post on X that they still use Adobe Animate to make the
show. “This decision would not only harm countless jobs in the
industry but render so much past creations as lost media,” the
post reads. David Firth, the creator of Salad Fingers, also says
he still uses the app to make the grotesque series.

Megacharlie, a technical artist for Jackbox Games, adds that the
app “is used in many high-budget television cartoon productions,
film and animation studios, game studios big and small, not to
mention the 1000s of indie creators who still make use of it
daily.”

Being creatives, I assume they are Mac users. Is that why they’re
incapable of learning the lesson about not becoming too dependent
on proprietary products?

Because open source projects never die...
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

On Feb 3, 2026 at 2:40:53 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote <10ltq14$1r7ol$1@dont-email.me>:

Adobe is shutting down its “Animate” product <https://www.theverge.com/news/872731/adobe-animate-app-shutdown-date>.
This was basically a reworking of Flash after it had dropped out of
use for online web animations. It’s really surprising to keep reading things like this:

The creators behind the short-form animated series Chikn Nuggit
write in a post on X that they still use Adobe Animate to make the
show. “This decision would not only harm countless jobs in the
industry but render so much past creations as lost media,” the
post reads. David Firth, the creator of Salad Fingers, also says
he still uses the app to make the grotesque series.

Megacharlie, a technical artist for Jackbox Games, adds that the
app “is used in many high-budget television cartoon productions,
film and animation studios, game studios big and small, not to
mention the 1000s of indie creators who still make use of it
daily.”

Being creatives, I assume they are Mac users. Is that why they’re
incapable of learning the lesson about not becoming too dependent
on proprietary products?

Why assume Mac users? And why assume they are not aware of the risks but take them because the software serves their needs best as they use it?
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