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0 pointsmoralestapia3y ago0 comments

>According to my acquaintance it was Apple.

LOL, that's far from insider info. Steve Jobs publicly said several times that he was going to kill Flash. And he did.

And the reason for that wasn't "Flash is an insecure platform". Flash was in the way of a thing called the "App Store" which, fast forward to 2022, has made Apple somewhere around a trillion (with a t) dollars.

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deadbolt3y ago· 1 in thread

> LOL, that's far from insider info. Steve Jobs publicly said several times that he was going to kill Flash. And he did.

This is one of the first things which makes me feel old. "heard it from an aquantance" shit we all saw it happen! I wonder if people are to young to remember it, or maybe there are a lot of people who just don't remember it at all.

moralestapiaOP3y ago

My thoughts as well! We old school now :D

Terretta3y ago

At the time, iphone was initially intended as platform for HTML5 apps, which it can still do today. So less about App Store, more about a number of dimensions of usability. Devs demanded native apps, not Jobs.

The problem with Flash was that it was a grossly inefficient runtime for arbitrary code with security issues, an extreme battery hog, and had no affordances for touch (e.g. you couldn't 'hover'). As I recall, battery was the biggest problem, security close second, UX inconsistency third, and runtime for arbitrary code (still disallowed!) as nail in coffin.

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