Lukas Damian Opacki

*** About me

I've grown up with a strong background of classic arts in my family, evolving concrete skills of empathic and holistic thinking. Counting in my aptitudes, this led my understanding to the fact, that I must be able to create stuff, whenever I want to create. I need that option, simply, because thats the way, things work out for me and I would'nt wonder at all, if you see things in a close manner. 

On the other side, there is an economic system, that does not realy give a damn about that, so, in my case, I needed to abstract my skills into some area, that will be needed for, lets say, longer than this kind of economy can be maintained. Thats how I found my destiny in bits and bytes. More concrete, in Flash Technology based, object oriented software development and, meanwhile, coaching and consulting the same.

I love this work, asuming Flash to be the most powerfull plattform in mixing all kinds of common Art/Media and enriching this potential on interactivity. With the ability, to spread somebodies doing over millions of screens and eventualy the minds in front of those, its a huge step forward for evolvment in art and culture.

Not to forget, that "somebodies doing" can be almost everything and that everything is highly scalable and maintainable, if you do it with flash and you do it right. Not even to mention, how beautyfull things can be, inside Flashplayer nor that every person, speaking of "Flashkillers", has a leak on technical facts. If there would be an Flashkiller out there, I would use it instead of flash.

*** About that iOS discussion

First of all, we should ask our selfs, if flash is dead, why are at least 99% of us using the plugin then? Maybe, because flash is used more intense today, then ever before.

Hard to believe? Looking at the web tomorrow, truth is, that using Flash for Webbanners or Videoplayers, is like shooting your own satelite into space, to have some TV-Entertainment in your living room. Of course it works, but its a waste of potential. Lets use HTML 5 for that, admitting, that Flash is not an animation tool - it just provides that possibility amongst actual innovation.

Anyway, Flashdevs have to admitt, that people are absolulty right, about asking: if this is so, why is it not supported on iOS devices? 

I can only give you the following hint. 

Simply imagine you could access all of those flash based apps or games, the web provides, using the flashplayer on your device. How many developers would pay a fee, to provide their stuff via application stores? And who would like to pay for services, if most of them are available for free on the web? And for those, which are not entierly free, what would YOU earn from them, if that easy-to-avoid application store, is yours?

That might be an obvious problem, if you build up such a store. So what could you do? Belie the whole plattform? For that, you have to be a great talker with millions of listeners. But, it wont make the plattform disapear. All you can do, is "protect" your store, from the plattforms possibilies influence.

So, pointing on trends, like realtime 3D, augumented reality and natural user interfaces while having a look on the possibilities, that Flash is providing allready today, its good for everyone, that porting AS3/AIR based applications on iOS devices is so easy. This way, innovative creations can be seen and used on desktops, mobiles, tablets and the web, with minimal affords in creation and maintaining of the same. 

And, finally, Flashdevs are absolutly right, to ask people, what they guess, where the "innovations" for HTML 5 came from? If someone asks you, the answer is called "Flash, ten years ago". And now, again, Flash is ten years ahead. So, concidering, that yesterdays innovations, are the standards of tomorrow, literaly nothing has changed.