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He took the unusual step of publishing a letter, “Thoughts On Flash” (https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on
by smacktoward 7y ago
He took the unusual step of publishing a letter, “Thoughts On Flash” (https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/), published under his own name, which said that “Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content.”
That’s going to war.
- chrisseaton 7y agoThese seem like dispassionate technical observations to me? His argument is that it’s obsolete. It’s ‘we’re ok without that thanks’ not ‘war’.
- benologist 7y agoIt wasn't obsolete in the slightest when Jobs published that letter. It was a piece of software worth billions, powering games like Farmville worth billions, powering video like YouTube, advertising, and it had remained a popular creative platform for two decades. There is more information about it here - in addition to Jobs going after Flash so publicly they added an app store rule specifying which languages developers could use to publish apps, and excluded Flash, after Adobe had made substantial progress publishing native iOS apps from Flash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_and_Adobe_Flash_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_and_Adobe_Flash_controve...