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flash was obsoleted because 1) iphone didn't support it, 2) iphone didn't support it, 3) iphone didn't support it, and 4) JS replaced the non-DRM use cases (and

• abritinthebay 9y ago
  Well that and Flash was a massive vector of security problems. Plus it wasn't very good on mobile, even when it was supported (ie - on Android it was still bad and never got out of beta anyhow)
  • Touche 9y ago
    I thought it was fine on Android, I played many games on it that worked well even on those old underpowered phones. It was never good, but probably about 0% of flash apps were written that targeted mobile so I wouldn't have the expectation of good.
    • abritinthebay 9y ago
      I think "fine" is being generous. When it worked it was... not great, due to UI issues, but it at least worked. Trouble is it seemed to not consistently work. I worked at a flash game developer at the time (Zynga) and it would not always load our games even if it had done so previously - the difference was sometimes just refreshing a page.
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