Death of Flash
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I do think Jobs killed flash, but only as the final nail in the coffin as illustrated above. And not directly, mind you, and certainly not all by himself.
Adobe didn't do their due diligence with the technology either. They jumped from a simple UI and a reasonably understandable (for most) AS 2.0 to the world of OO and they gave novice developers (and let's face it, this is the core of who was developing flash apps) too much rope to hang themselves with. These so-called developers knew nothing of garbage collection or memory management or using patterns for designing applications to run efficiently and thus you had flash applications that had the simple job of displaying a banner ad that would single-handedly take down a browser.
As a result, the non-tech world and even the somewhat tech savvy that 'knew a little php - or whatever' but have never done any real program whole-heartedly bought into the notion, while firmly grasping their Steve Jobs prayer beads, that flash itself was to blame and that it was an outdated, inferior technology. With the propogation of this notion that flash sucked as a technology the bandwagoners (and i'm pointing at most of you) brought this browser technology to a screeching halt.
In the early two thousands I might have cared as I appreciated and supported what the technology was and what it could do. Today I'm far removed from the tedium of typical web development and could mostly care less... ...except, I really did enjoy the rare creativity that the few, who knew, could squeeze out of it and bring us something purely enjoyable. But hey.. web standards and all that... flash is nonsense and the Web is serious business! Out with the old and in with the new!