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As far as I'm concerned, Apple still have a bit of time left to bask in the afterglow granted for mortally wounding Flash by keeping it off of iOS.
by frou_dh 12y ago
As far as I'm concerned, Apple still have a bit of time left to bask in the afterglow granted for mortally wounding Flash by keeping it off of iOS.
- Touche 12y agoReally? That was 7 years ago.
- frou_dh 12y agoAnd yet it was only a few weeks ago that YouTube started serving HTML5 video by default on the desktop (yes I know there was a flakey cookie-based opt-in earlier). There and elsewhere I was/am STILL having to spoof my desktop user-agent to pretend to be a phone to get around "Flash is REQUIRED to view this content" roadblocks. Ideally Flash needs a bullet to the head, but I credit Apple with the best strike on it so far.
- Touche 12y agoYou miss my point. You're saying we should forgive Apple of their current transgressions because they did something nice 7 years ago? Give me a break.
- frou_dh 12y agoI said "I" not we, and nothing about forgiveness. Flash not being on iOS was not a point in time, but a continuous good thing.
- ytpete 12y agoDo you think perhaps the same motivation could have been at play there - stifling web competition to their native app store?
- frou_dh 12y agoHard to say to what extent. Remember, at least in the early days before there even was a native SDK, they were very pro-webapp for iOS.