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flash is not the open web. it was a proprietary plugin.
by ehutch79 5y ago
flash is not the open web. it was a proprietary plugin.
- rchaud 5y agoDidn't say it was the open web. The web in general wasn't all that open. You couldn't run Netflix on your PC without a Microsoft Silverlight plugin. Today, it's Widevine for Android. Both proprietary and closed source. Adobe made Flash plugins available for iOS, Android, WebOS and Blackberry. There was none of the anti-competitive moat building that Apple and Google engaged in to win the app war and squeeze out every other vendor. The death of Flash meant that there was no universal, un-walled app store that was OS-agnostic.