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Jobs isn't the one that killed Flash. Flash had a real chance to survive thanks to Android and people might not remember, but Android was shipped with Flash in
by bad_user 12y ago
Jobs isn't the one that killed Flash.
Flash had a real chance to survive thanks to Android and people might not remember, but Android was shipped with Flash installed. Unfortunately it sucked, being unstable, a resource hog, plus the Flash games available weren't meant for touch screens. And the same thing happened with Linux btw. I mean, here I was, with both Firefox, Chrome and Opera working well on my Ubuntu machine and Adobe wasn't capable of keeping a freaking plugin up to date for my platform.
So they simply didn't cared. My guess is that Adobe was looking for an excuse to kill it.
Also, Flash isn't the only proprietary plugin that was killed by the transition to HTML5. Silverlight is another one.
- MichaelGG 12y agoYeah if the Flash plugin allowed you to take a game and just go full screen, versus trying to dick around resizing the browser window they coulda done great on Android. Tons of games instantly available. They could have also figured out some way to deal with touch that didn't suck.