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The iOS App Store preceded the Flash ban. "Apple introduced the App Store on July 10, 2008 with 500 apps" https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/app-store-turn
by Dotnaught 6y ago
The iOS App Store preceded the Flash ban.
"Apple introduced the App Store on July 10, 2008 with 500 apps"
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/app-store-turns-10/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/app-store-turns-10/
Apple's Flash restrictions were published in draft form in April 2010.
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/04/20/on-adobe-flash-cs5-and-iphone-applications/ http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/04/20/on-adobe-flash-c...
And justified by Steve Jobs that same month:
https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
- kyralis 6y agoThis is cherry-picking articles to create a false timeline. The iPhone never supported Flash. There was never a "Flash ban" so much as there was never Flash.
- kmeisthax 6y agoI think that by "Flash ban" Dotnaught means "Apple's ban on third party development tools" which was specifically intended to ban the iOS packager tool Adobe had started shipping.