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I used to be on the "Flash is awesome! Don't kill it team!" But I've changed my mind. Flash needed to die. It existed in a world where everyone was on desktop

I used to be on the "Flash is awesome! Don't kill it team!" But I've changed my mind. Flash needed to die. It existed in a world where everyone was on desktop with a mouse. Fixing it to be responsive so the majority of creations made in flash worked on both desktop and mobile and adjusted from landscape to portrait would have basically broken flash IMO.

mike_hearn 4y ago
There was Flash for mobile, it did work. Meanwhile, web content by default doesn't really work on mobile screens either. You need to carefully adapt it. There are frameworks that can help and provide sensible defaults, but there's no particular reason Flash couldn't do the same. Towards the end of its life it wasn't just an animation system but a full app platform. Realistically, the reason jobs hated Flash was that he demanded total control over the software stack. Adobe did license the Flash plugin code, and SWF was a documented/open-ish format, but presumably there was some corporate politics there. As Jobs put it, he didn't want "a third party layer of software coming between the platform and the developer".