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by redial 3202 days ago
Flash was an inefficient, non-touch optimized, full-of-security-holes competitor's runtime...why would they want it on the iPhone again? when a version for it finally arrived, years later on Andriod, it was so awful that even Adobe realized it wasn't worth murdering everyone's battery life only to have flash web-ads visible.
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thinkloop 3202 days ago
There is nothing inherent to flash that requires it to have security flaws and no touch. The flash vm operates in the same space as the Android and iOS VMs. If it were iterated and improved, and allowed to flourish it could have been a direct competition to native, possibly eventually leading to a flash OS and flash phone, all the pieces are there.
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redial 3202 days ago
Everything can be anything given enough work and time, even JavaScript. The truth is nobody wanted to do all the work required, not even Adobe. Flash's demise is not on Apple, or Google, or Macromedia. It is entirely on Adobe for failing to adapt and modernize it to make it competitive.
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thinkloop 3201 days ago
It seems we agree on all points. If Adobe was good, flash could have been the mobile platform. That's too large a risk for Apple to take.
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