> And yet Flash persisted across the web, until a giant like Apple decided to de-platform them in favor of its own lock-in solution. Flash was a proprietary te

> And yet Flash persisted across the web, until a giant like Apple decided to de-platform them in favor of its own lock-in solution. Flash was a proprietary technology that bootstrapped the early web but was doomed due to a combination of ongoing security issues (which pushed browsers to move it to a plugin and disable autoplay) and poor support for emerging platforms. > Consumers for the most part have no idea what tech lies under the hood for the websites they visit. The vast majority of of the tools and languages that lie under the hood for websites, especially on the frontend, is built on open source tech. There are plenty of shady things that Apple has done, but it is ridiculous to blame Apple for single handedly taking down a doomed technology. This is an example of Apple's prescient side, not it's nefarious side.