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Comment by KaiserPro

1 day ago

> more security holes than anything else.

yeah it wasn't secure

but;

> bad performance

I don't think thats the case. For the longest while flash was faster than js at doing anything vaguely graphic based. The issue for apple was that the CPU in the iphone wasn't fast enough to do flash and anything else. Moreover Adobe didn't get on with jobs when they were talking about custom versions.

You have to remember that "apps" were never meant to be a thing on the iphone, it was all about "desktop" like web performance.

I remember well. I earned my living for a few years around 2010 porting slow Flash sites to regular web tech. It was hard to translate some functionality, but Flash was definitely slow compared to the equivalent regular website done without the plugin.