Quote - The hardware is made by manufacturers, who either make it compatible to the OS(es), or they don't sell their product... true or false?

True true!

But... we're in a situation where there are many components, many layers, interacting here. I don't want to completely describe the architecture, but I can say that there are 5 new pieces of the puzzle that have never been assembled in this way before. The system as a whole is not just Adobe, it is an amalgam of stuff (beyond just the OS) from Apple, Microsoft, and several open source projects, as well as the Adobe stuff. It's really a joy to have all this new power to build on the work of thousands of developers as part of the Poser solution.

But it's not without some system integration gotchas. If I were to go to Adobe and say "The mouse up event from outside my window is not reaching my Flex app on a Mac, but it does on a PC" they would say it is the fault of one of the other components. When I said earlier that I know my job, I meant that I understand (despite whatever gripes I vented) that it is my job as integrator to make this work. If there is a finger to point somewhere, then it's my job to find a specific thing that violates the spec and only then to ask the author to fix it. At the moment, it's not at all clear what exactly the problem is, but it is certainly my problem to figure it out first. I'm very confident that I'll find the cause and also I'll find a way to work around the integration problem.

I'm also pretty stoked about the kinds of things I'll be able to add to the system in the future.

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