Death of Flash
Death of Flash
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Adobe was caught sleeping, no doubt. Jobs took the chance to not only kill a competitor, but to solidify Apple's profits via apps. Brilliant business move, imho, but he did kill an industry and send well paid programmers to the streets.
I still care because much of what I do benefits from Flash (still used on large touchscreens, which now is a headache to keep things coordinated, before you could use literally the same file).
I am fine with the way it is today - boring and predictable. All about money, money, money. Flash would have evolved in the same way, eventually - cleaner, more minimal, mobile friendly, etc. Just look at how long its taken this HTML5 to really work and it is still ages from the flexibility Flash had.
- Sounds like your problem is really with Adobe for not letting it evolve?monospaced
- Nope, it's with Jobs killing it, Adobe wasn't given a chanceformed
- Agreed. And bash Flash all you want, what was the better alternative? No answer then and not ever 5 years later.CyBrainX
- Since Jobs didn't work at Adobe, I find it hard how he could personally "kill" Flash. I mean, it's still around.monospaced