[ChuckNorris89]

Hmmm, if only we had some cross platform framework that worked in every browser even before the iPhone was invented. /s

[scarface74]

You mean the one that could barely run on 1Ghz phones with 1GB of RAM that the company behind it said they could have gotten it to run on a 128MB RAM first gen iPhone with a 400Mhz processor if Apple had allowed them?

[Wowfunhappy]

I'd like to see how a web app of similar complexity would run on the same hardware. For all that people remember Flash being slow, remember the era of hardware it was running on.

[scarface74]

By the time the iPhone was introduced, PC hardware was well into the GHz era with multiple GBs of RAM. The phone was much more constrained and didn’t have disk swapping.

[Wowfunhappy]

And yet we didn’t have very complicated web apps (that didn’t use Flash). I’d like to see Slack on a 2008 PC.

Meanwhile, the Wii’s web browser supported Flash, and the Wii is a lot less powerful than an iPhone.

[scarface74]

In that case why were the minimum requirements for Flash for Android when it did come out in 2010 and 1GB of RAM and a 1Ghz processor and then it barely ran, ate up battery life, and was soon discontinued?

The first iPhone that came out with those spec’s was in 2011.

[Wowfunhappy]

I think it’s a combination of:

- Android itself really sucked at this point in time.

- Android and iOS in 2010 couldn’t run complex web apps either without chugging. It really had to be native code to perform well.