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There ought to be a rating somewhere about how wildly a company tends to veer, and how often, when corporate re-strategizing kicks in, specifically in regards to APIs and deployment. MS in particular seems to be pretty schizoid that way, at least in the consumer space. (People were also bitching about Facebook and its APIs in that regard recently, no?) Say what you will about Flash, but I have unfinished games from 2006 that I could still safely release tomorrow without issue.

I would definitely like to see the source for this. Over time, it's become a lot more clear to me that Flash's defaults (and the normal tutorial code you read) are tuned for high resolution advertising contexts, mostly, so the need for taking steps to get good real-time / interactive performance out of Flash isn't always totally obvious to people.

I feel like I remember Jef Raskin talking about this in his Hamane Interface book, the idea that there should be no saving and that everything should always have infinite undo (all as a goal). I might be wrong about that.