> Apple wanted to kill flash because it was CPU intensive and Jobs hated it. Jobs wanted Flash gone because it was direct competition to the App Store. That's

> Apple wanted to kill flash because it was CPU intensive and Jobs hated it. Jobs wanted Flash gone because it was direct competition to the App Store. That's it. There is no other reason. Jobs could not say that of course, so he used his massive platform to assert that HTML5 was just as good as Flash, and that Flash was "riddled with security holes". None of it was true, of course, but Jobs had charisma and a massive following of True Believers, and so his frontal assault on a competitor was successful. An entire industry and platform destroyed so that Apple could not only control what games were played on its platform, but to charge for them Yes, Flash had security issues, like every platform and program and browser ever, but there was nothing about Flash that was uniquely terrible the way Jobs and his minions asserted