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Flash was a security dumpster fire and wasn't designed for touch interfaces. That said, I don't think Apple - or any other vendor - should be able to prohibit
by marcus0x62 3y ago
Flash was a security dumpster fire and wasn't designed for touch interfaces. That said, I don't think Apple - or any other vendor - should be able to prohibit users from running software on devices the user putatively owns.
Offer an (optional) walled-garden experience, ok, but locking down users from installing their own software is predatory.
- philistine 3y agoApple never banned Adobe from making a Flash player app on iPhone. They decided against shipping it as a plug-in for Safari on iOS. The fact that Adobe could not have made a Flash player app (imagine an app which you point an URL at to load its Flash content) helps explains the problem.
- marcus0x62 3y agoWhy would Adobe want to make such an app? The UX — because of apple’s third-party browser engine restrictions — would have been comically bad.