It was a rich, interactive, streaming vector file format with a gorgeous and tiny code execution engine. It was an incredible time of creative exploration with many thousands of people figuring out how to make beautiful and ugly and funny and sad things and share them with each other.
Steve took this from us 18 years ago because it clearly threatened his ability to enclose the entire application ecosystem, control who can and can't publish, and charge a 30% tax against every dollar spent on the internet.
Please note: Many of the very same people who shit all over Flash as some proprietary, ethical violation, happily tap away on their iOS devices, sending billions of dollars to Tim.
Of course I'm not talking about you, it's those other people over there.
It was a rich, interactive, streaming vector file format with a gorgeous and tiny code execution engine. It was an incredible time of creative exploration with many thousands of people figuring out how to make beautiful and ugly and funny and sad things and share them with each other.
Steve took this from us 18 years ago because it clearly threatened his ability to enclose the entire application ecosystem, control who can and can't publish, and charge a 30% tax against every dollar spent on the internet.
Please note: Many of the very same people who shit all over Flash as some proprietary, ethical violation, happily tap away on their iOS devices, sending billions of dollars to Tim.
Of course I'm not talking about you, it's those other people over there.