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by msephton 779 days ago
The results were fantastic, actually. The Flash era was a great time, and lots of important and influential software came out of it.

The problem Steve Jobs had was that Flash was too resource/power hungry to run on the first iPhone, so his decision to disallow it was a defensive one.

Interestingly, you could make iPhone apps with Adobe Air (a descendent of Flash) and such apps still run today! So there have more longevity and compatibility than apps written with the official Apple tools. Pickle's Book is one such app you might like to try out.

Today's iPhones are capable of running Flash much better, and iOS is now a resource (CPU/RAM/battery) hog all by itself. So what was really achieved in the long run?
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mpweiher 778 days ago
It was also the #1 source of performance and crasher bugs on OS X.

IIRC, at one point it accounted for something like 50% of the incoming bug reports.

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msephton 778 days ago
Crashing Safari I could see? But OS X, really? Do you remember where you read this?
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