Destroying an open, low barrier to entry animation and application platform that was used by teenagers to develop and share interactive content?
Destroying a way to deliver native-like, cross-platform applications without an app store was good?
Jobs did it for control. He didn't want interop between Android and iPhone, and he didn't want any web browser with enough flexibility to do anything sophisticated.
Flash was a dumpster fire of bad performance and security vulnerabilities. It was also a wholly proprietary platform that did great harm to the openness of the web during it's reign. It was only marginally less problematic than ActiveX.
Destroying an open, low barrier to entry animation and application platform that was used by teenagers to develop and share interactive content?
Destroying a way to deliver native-like, cross-platform applications without an app store was good?
Jobs did it for control. He didn't want interop between Android and iPhone, and he didn't want any web browser with enough flexibility to do anything sophisticated.
Flash was a dumpster fire of bad performance and security vulnerabilities. It was also a wholly proprietary platform that did great harm to the openness of the web during it's reign. It was only marginally less problematic than ActiveX.
Android had Flash. It stank, and the blame for its stinkiness lies entirely on Adobe.
Better than the neck brace we wear around our throats today.
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