Flash: Not Easy

I thought I'd fire up Flash for the first time, and quickly whip up a SWF that would preview audio, much like Amazon likes to do when they sell audio CDs.

What I found was a surprisingly convoluted interface, where widgets didn't do what I expected. See screenshot.



I wonder if there is a fundamental difference in design for applications sourced on a mac than their counterparts that are natively designed on Windows. Perhaps that's why photoshop wasn't an intuitive application for me to use either (I'm still sticking with PSP5 from 1998).

The Gimp isn't very intuitive to me either. Do Linux designers have even different philosophies?