Why did Adobe decide to discontinue further support for Adobe AIR for desktop Linux®?
As the market shifts to mobile devices, Adobe is investing in bringing its runtime technologies to new hardware and operating systems. We are increasingly investing in mobile authoring, and our recent Creative Suite 5.5 release is focused on enabling customers to deliver their experiences across devices using our technologies. We have responded to the changing market trends by providing AIR support for a growing number of platforms, including Android, iOS and BlackBerry Tablet OS, televisions, and set top boxes. Lifetime AIR for Linux desktop downloads represent less than 0.5% of total AIR desktop downloads, which number over 450 million, and we have decided to change our distribution model for Linux and direct these resources towards our mobile efforts. Our efforts are focused on supporting operating systems that are most important to our customers, and that also demonstrate the greatest opportunity for future growth for our partners and developers. We continue to provide partners the
