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> It was a great product, but Macromedia / Adobe demonstrated subsequently that they were in no way a security-responsible long-term maintainer. The amount of

by dwild 5y ago

> It was a great product, but Macromedia / Adobe demonstrated subsequently that they were in no way a security-responsible long-term maintainer. The amount of zero-days zero-click remote code execution that came out of iOS on the past few months... Zerodium had to stop buying zero-days for iOS last year, as they had too many of them. I means I won't say that Adobe did a great job on security, just that it wasn't a good justification to kill the whole product. Flash didn't get taken down because of security issue, but because of Jobs manipulative tactics.

snowwrestler 5y ago
Flash just could not run well on power-constrained environments. Folks were allowed to run it on Android, but it sucked. Flash was not killed, it committed suicide. All Jobs did was keep the death throes off iOS.
- dwild 5y ago
  > Flash just could not run well on power-constrained environments. Folks were allowed to run it on Android, but it sucked. It was running pretty well 10 years on my LG Optimus One at the time, which was a cheap 200$ phone (not subsidized, I got it for 50$ because of a promotion that gave 100$ while it was 50$ off). Still remember a few years ago, a bunch of friends started to play on our group conversation on the cheap HTML5 games of Facebook... theses games were so simple, yet most were complaining of performance issue. That was on phones that was now few generations better, and not the entry-level ones either... Jobs knew how to control markets, we are on a thread about this. Flash was killed because he needed it to be killed to control the market.