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One was killed by Apple.
by pags 11y ago
One was killed by Apple.
- joshstrange 11y agoIf you are talking about flash let's be clear. Flash was killed by mobile (and being generally shitty). It's not like Apple said "Flash is the worst" and everyone said "Hey, you know I never thought about it like that". In fact I'm sure battery was a major reason not allowing flash, IIRC that (plus general indifference) was what was the nail in coffin for even android phones flash.
- r618 11y ago..and they should have gone even further with javascript on mobile; web static pages and native apps for everything ( like it is even now ) - would be _absolutely_ fine no javascript on restricted platform - world would be even better as it is there without flash i am _mostly_ backend developer by trade, so I can imagine half of the internets would be broken without JS on mobile and I can imagine that some problems would not be overcome-able , but as it is now it's like plugging desktop platform there - exactly as flash was