A blog post on Adobe’s website is announcing that From January 2016, Adobe Flash Professional which is Adobe’s main authoring tool for Flash animations will be renamed to ‘Adobe Animate CC’. Here’s what the company had to say on that front:
Today, over a third of all content created in Flash Professional today uses HTML5, reaching over one billion devices worldwide. It has also been recognized as an HTML5 ad solution that complies with the latest Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standards, and is widely used in the cartoon industry by powerhouse studios like Nickelodeon and Titmouse Inc.
Animate CC will continue supporting Flash (SWF) and AIR formats as first-class citizens. In addition, it can output animations to virtually any format (including SVG), through its extensible architecture.
One has to wonder if this is being done to make us begin to forget what a security mess that Adobe Flash is? In other words, is this the beginning of a re branding exercise? I say stay tuned and we’ll find out together.