it came a few years before the end of Flash-as-we-know-it when Steve Jobs decided to block it
I forgot about that. Does anyone have any info about this? I didn't pay much attention at the time, but in retrospect it seems like it was one of the main reasons everyone stopped using flash.
Did Adobe try to get Steve to pay a licensing fee, or was he just inherently against implementing flash?
The excuse Steve made at the time was that it was too CPU intensive to run flash. I'm not sure how true this was, except for the earliest iPhone models. I've always wondered what the real reasons were.
It was certainly a good decision in retrospect, but it's an interesting bit of history.
I forgot about that. Does anyone have any info about this? I didn't pay much attention at the time, but in retrospect it seems like it was one of the main reasons everyone stopped using flash.
Did Adobe try to get Steve to pay a licensing fee, or was he just inherently against implementing flash?
The excuse Steve made at the time was that it was too CPU intensive to run flash. I'm not sure how true this was, except for the earliest iPhone models. I've always wondered what the real reasons were.
It was certainly a good decision in retrospect, but it's an interesting bit of history.