Adobe Flash gets rebranded to 'Animate CC'

According to Gama Sutra, Adobe has recently announced the death of its Adobe Flash. However, is it really dead now? The answer is both "yes" and "no."

"Yes" in a sense that Adobe has finally bid goodbye to Flash. There is no program that a person can call as Adobe Flash now as Adobe officially put an end to this program. On the other hand, it is "no" because the program will be revived under the name "Adobe Animate CC." Therefore, it will just look like as if they change the name of the program into something new.

The Animate CC is said to support Flash creation, along with SVG, WebGL, 4K Video and HTML5. Aside from this, the user will still find content online that will need Flash Player. Among these content are Flash videos and Facebook games.

The Tech Report reported that Flash has been an important part of the history of desktop systems web browsing for some time. However, despite being so popular at first, it is no secret that the program had decreased its popularity and lost most of its fans and users. Worse, it was even known for its bad aspects, especially its various security problems.

Rebranding Adobe Flash as Adobe Animate CC will help it gain more trust and interest from previous and new users. Aside from the name of the program, what more differences can users expect from the Adobe Animate CC?

Even when Adobe Animate CC will still not be introduced until 2016, there are already a few things that people can expect about it.

Wired reported that the new program will be sporting brand new features, such as the ability to rotate the canvas 360 degrees from chosen pivot point, easy-access to stock art and new vector art brushes.

 While the site reported the things that make Animate CC an exciting program this 2016, it also listed a few things that might possibly make it a "not-so-ideal program." This includes the claim that the program won't still have a solution for the security problems that the Adobe Flash suffered from before. However, it is just a rumor as no one has really used this Animate CC program.

Will the Adobe Animate CC appeal to the users, especially the web developers? Will it follow the success of its predecessor, Adobe Flash, during its early period? Will it also continuously fall just like how Flash fell down to the bottom before? All of these questions are still yet to answer once the program has already been officially launched.