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I find the arguments convincing because they make sense to me. There's 0% of me as an iPhone user that's like, "man, I wish Apple had done more to extend the li
by dilap 9y ago
I find the arguments convincing because they make sense to me. There's 0% of me as an iPhone user that's like, "man, I wish Apple had done more to extend the lifetime of flash."
And think about it: If Apple's only goal were to push people to the App Store, why bother to build a mobile browser with good html5 support? Why add a special mode where you could add websites to the home screen as icons, and they'd show up just like normal apps, launching into full-screen mode w/o chrome?
Maybe I'm buying bridges, but I take Jobs' at his word in the flash letter.
(Though, no doubt! Apple does love having ultimate control via the App Store.
(Which, as a completely separate topic, is terrible. They censor the whole thing to a PG-13 level and reject apps for arbitrary political reasons (e.g., a drone-strike notification app, Gab).
(It's truly a shame that the most important medium of our time is run like a totalitarian state.)