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Ordinary people won't notice.

• bunderbunder 14y ago
  That's fine. Ordinary people never really realized how irritating Adobe was being about Flash, either, but that wasn't really a big deal because it was ultimately Flash's poor reputation among techies that brought it down. Similarly, I think Java's worst nightmare scenario wouldn't be end users deciding they don't like it. (Heck, like with Flash most of them don't even know when they're using it.) It would be some massive headline-making Java-related security breach at a Fortune 500 company convincing IT departments around the world to start thinking that it's time to migrate to a less risky platform.
  • drzaiusapelord 14y ago
    >it was ultimately Flash's poor reputation among techies that brought it down. Sorry, but techie's opinions are overrated. iOS and mobile video brought Flash down a few notches, not us.
    • yakiv 14y ago
      I've heard that Steve Jobs hated Flash (or Adobe). Whatever his reasons were, a techie's opinion maybe did help bring Flash down a few notches.
  • josephlord 14y ago
    I'm not sure it was a general view amongst techies that did for Flash I think it was those in Apple (not necessarily techies) who made or influenced the decision not to support it in iOS that brought it down. At the time that looked like a big gamble but with hindsight the gamble has paid off for everybody but Adobe and Flash developers.