Adobe AIR 100 million installs, Flash Player 10 already on 55.9% of all PCs
Did you know it took 38 years for radio to get 50 million users? 13 years for TV to get to that number and 4 years for the Internet to get to 50 million users? (according to Discovery Channel)
Adopting new technology seems to go faster and faster and the Flash Player census numbers prove this every quarter. The most recent numbers (published just now), show that Flash Player 10 was installed on more than 55 percent of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release! That means it will surpass 80 percent by the second quarter of 2009, far outpacing the installation rate of past versions of the software.
The AIR runtime has also been doing very well. In less than one year after its initial release, there have been more than 100 million installations of Adobe AIR! On top of that, there have been over 1 million downloads of the AIR software development kit (SDK), the free open source Flex framework and Adobe Flex Builder in the last 12 months.
A big thank you goes out to all the developers out there who are building cool apps on top of the Flash Platform. Flash on!
Update: Also check Adrian Ludwig’s blog post on how we measure these installations.
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