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> just do what's best for the consumer Apple got caught shipping a Flash player with known security vulnerabilities, that's not good for "the consumer". They a
by DougBTX 16y ago
> just do what's best for the consumer
Apple got caught shipping a Flash player with known security vulnerabilities, that's not good for "the consumer". They also claim that half the reported OS X crashes are due to Flash - which seem exaggerated, but if true, also bad for "the consumer".
- YooLi 16y agoHonestly I don't think it's an exaggeration, even if technically I think they were talking about Safari crashes. Flash has crashed my Safari more times than I can excuse as 'these things happen'.
- smackfu 16y agoAnd now Flash won't be included in the system updater, so now way more people are going to be running back-level versions. Bet that will really help with the crashing and security issues. This is exactly the reason Chrome moved to shipping with Flash included, and why Firefox now checks the flash version when it starts up. Apple is going backwards on this.
- GHFigs 16y agoThis is exactly the reason Chrome moved to shipping with Flash included No, Chrome ships with Flash because it is in Google's competitive interests to do so both as a browser vendor and advertiser.