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applying hindsight retroactively and prognosticating on that basis seems like a bozo kind of idea... (post takes a single piece of Kevin's writing about Flash,

applying hindsight retroactively and prognosticating on that basis seems like a bozo kind of idea... (post takes a single piece of Kevin's writing about Flash, from a then-Adobe staffer, from a few years back, and extrapolates - move along, nothing interesting here)

Samuel_Michon 14y ago
Three years a go most people recognized Flash for what it is. The only platform on which Flash works well is desktop Windows, and even there it's a CPU hog with serious security vulnerabilities. By 2010, Gruber had been writing about Flash' many faults for years – this was 3 years after the introduction of the iPhone. Lynch must've known Flash was a sick puppy, he just couldn't bring himself to euthanize it.