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While everyone loves Flash games and Homestar Runner and everything, let's not forget that Apple's war was against horrendous Flash websites, which were never g

• throw_m239339 6y ago
  > which were never going to be reasonably accessible on a touchscreen phone. I mean you could say the exact same thing for most websites that weren't fit for mobile and touch screen either. It had nothing to do with Flash, it was 100% a developer's problem, not a tech problem. Flash problems are: proprietary/closed source VM, performances and security, which was all on Adobe side, not Flash developers. In fact, Flash apps did run on Mobile including IOS via Air. https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html So Steve Jobs was wrong initially. Let us remember that Jobs didn't want native apps on IOS, he wanted people to write web apps and Native apps to be solely the prerogative on Apple, until he changed his mind. Now you be that Apple prefers developers to write native apps, since it makes Apple a substantial amount of money.