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by jhoelzel 1303 days ago
It was not flash that we were fighting. it was adobe and their proriarity and thought process in keeping flash to themselfs.

If adobe would have not been the way they were, they would now dominate the animation scene too.

Instead, inadvertetly because of patents, we dont have anything cool to show for.

All this minimalism everywhere is disgusting. And they never get it right anyway because you have to put hightower ads everywhere you can.

While it still was macromedia calling the shots, people had trust in flash
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drewcoo 1303 days ago
> It was not flash that we were fighting. it was adobe

And I thought it was Steve Jobs' wielding of monopoly power in the name of "taste." Or was it "security?" Or the fact that Apple couldn't keep Flash from crashing Macs?

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jhoelzel 1303 days ago
I have never owned a Mac but i can guarantee you that on the windows side people where not loving flash either.

I rather would blame the fact that it allways ran in a plugin and needed to be constantly updaeted where browsers did not easily provide such a mechanism.

Flash was very cool but also very frustrating if you "just want to use your computer"

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