> I don't really think the Flash decision had anything to do with "better products," and simply ecosystem control. It sounds like you weren’t following tech ne

> I don't really think the Flash decision had anything to do with "better products," and simply ecosystem control. It sounds like you weren’t following tech news around that time. The decision about Flash may have had some elements about control, but it was largely about avoiding an unreliable, crashing, battery sucking and insecure piece of software. When Steve Jobs wrote his open letter “Thoughts on Flash”, [1] there was a lot of criticism on Apple’s decision and predictions of Android wiping out Apple completely because Android still supported Flash. But people did come around to see that Apple was right about Flash and that it wasn’t something that was good enough to be included on mobile. Eventually, Adobe was forced to stop development on it (to the extent it was spending time but still not making it better on stability, security and energy consumption). [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200430094807/https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200430094807/https://www.apple...