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2,355,270,000 Flash Player 9 Installs at Midnight 07/29/2007
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I spoke with Emmy Huang, product manager for Adobe Flash Player this morning. She pulled up the Flash Player Dashboard and gave me the exact Player 9 installs as of midnight 07/29/2007, 2,355,270,000 successful installs. I have recalibrated the counter since the counter was off by 15 million installs.The install stats come from Akamai and are rounded to the million. The player install numbers are not part of any formal published statistics by Adobe. They are very real, but we do not have 3rd party verification other than with Akamai and Adobe.
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I will check in with Emmy from time to time and update the counter monthly to make sure it is accurate. The trending for the installation rate is that it is slowly increasing over time, thus the counter will always tend to be lower than the actual download numbers.
This scale of installations really drive home the fact that download size still really matters. The smaller the player, the faster the runtime is deployed. Considering that the Adobe Flash Player is the most distributed piece of software in the history of software (and the universe for that matter), keeping it small and efficient is very important.
Small is beautiful! Go Flash Player Go!
Cheers,
Ted :)
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thank you counter source code,greatly appreciate your work!
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nice counter~ Thankz~ ^-^)
Hi Ted...
is there any chance to reduce the size of flash player in the future? less than 1 mb ! :S
Actually there is, but I cannot talk about it. Each feature in Flash Player is given a size limitation in bytes and we continue to stay focused on keeping it small given this volume of downloads.
More to come! :)
Ted :)