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As far as I'm concerned, Apple still have a bit of time left to bask in the afterglow granted for mortally wounding Flash by keeping it off of iOS.



Do you think perhaps the same motivation could have been at play there - stifling web competition to their native app store?


Hard to say to what extent. Remember, at least in the early days before there even was a native SDK, they were very pro-webapp for iOS.


Really? That was 7 years ago.


And yet it was only a few weeks ago that YouTube started serving HTML5 video by default on the desktop (yes I know there was a flakey cookie-based opt-in earlier).

There and elsewhere I was/am STILL having to spoof my desktop user-agent to pretend to be a phone to get around "Flash is REQUIRED to view this content" roadblocks.

Ideally Flash needs a bullet to the head, but I credit Apple with the best strike on it so far.


You miss my point. You're saying we should forgive Apple of their current transgressions because they did something nice 7 years ago? Give me a break.


I said "I" not we, and nothing about forgiveness.

Flash not being on iOS was not a point in time, but a continuous good thing.




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