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Doesn't surprise me Apple chose the laziest solution. Not like their customers care.

• angry_octet 6y ago
  It isn't like Apple had the ability to re-architect Flash for their platform. Not supporting Flash on iOS was a huge push towards HTML5 (and native iOS apps). Steve Jobs, "Thoughts on Flash",2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple...
  • thanksforthe42 6y ago
    I don't know if it's responsible to reference a propaganda outlet. This is the same organization that lies about privacy and security.. Anyway on topic. Their competition made a safe flash environment. And pages would ask if you wanted to run Flash. And native iOS apps are bad for everyone. Vendor lock-in is bad for customers. It's bad for programmers who are at the will of Apple. You can see them fighting against web apps to this day. They are a horrible company and bad for capitalism. You should recognize yourself as an apologist.
    • pwinnski 6y ago
      Their competition tried to support Flash, and managed to deliver only a buggy, slow implementation with security issue, and only some time after iPhone's launch. One can believe Apple deserves to be disassembled and still understand that Flash was bad technology, with only Adobe to blame.
  • rchaud 6y ago
    The push towards HTML5 stopped dead in its tracks once streaming audio and video became doable without Flash. There's so much more functionality Flash was capable of, functionality that isn't possible without a nearly expert-level understanding of Javascript.