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"Thoughts on Flash" may just have saved the Web platform at its hour of greatest need, ie. creeping dominance of a single piece of software. I believe that som

"Thoughts on Flash" may just have saved the Web platform at its hour of greatest need, ie. creeping dominance of a single piece of software. I believe that somewhere in there was frustration with Adobe who seemed to abandon the MacOS platform support for Windows' much larger user base, eg. Mac versions were always behind Windows versions. Perhaps Jobs also may've felt that there would be no Adobe without Apple as much as the other way around but that's speculative The game looks slick af btw,

golergka 2y ago
Even PSP had Flash, and it was fairly decent. I wonder how much effort and money Sony put into that.
- olliej 2y ago
  Flash had numerous issues. The processing power available (especially on a PSP) is more than enough to be “good”, the problem with flash _performance_ is the power usage while achieving that perf. Even on laptops flash was a significant battery life drain whenever it was running, having it on all websites would kill battery life while browsing on a phone.
  - thedragonline 2y ago
    Yeah it did. I'm just sad that it took down ActionScript with it. IMO this is the language Javascript should have been.
    - cpeterso 2y ago
      ActionScript was a big influence on ECMAScript 4 until it was abandoned and scaled back for ECMAScript 5 “Harmony”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#4th_Edition_(abandoned) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#4...
fitsumbelay 2y ago
... and the post has me poking around with C again. was always an ecmascript guy with a little Lingo in there from long ago, however I have an itch for all things low-resource and close to the metal (but not assembly lang close) and golfing my way towards somethings that encourage me to dig deeper