I want to remind everyone what happened, here.
By the beginning of 2010, it was clear that the App Store was likely to become a massive cash cow for Apple. Flash was direct competition, however. If one could play a game in a browser rather than buying it, Apple would lose out on that income. Everyone was clamoring for Apple to add Flash capability to its mobile iPhone browser. Adobe offered all help, yet Apple continued to drag its feet. It became obvious something was going on.
In April, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter, "Thoughts on Flash", stating, among other things, that HTML5 could deliver a superior experience to Flash and that Flash had such inherent security and performance problems that they could never be rectified.
These were lies, but Apple's henchmen in tech media, especially Wired and Gawker, repeated this lie endlessly, destroying a creative ecosystem and industry so that Apple could have its App Store.
The web is still to this day unable to deliver an experience like Flash could, and likely will never be able to.
By the beginning of 2010, it was clear that the App Store was likely to become a massive cash cow for Apple. Flash was direct competition, however. If one could play a game in a browser rather than buying it, Apple would lose out on that income. Everyone was clamoring for Apple to add Flash capability to its mobile iPhone browser. Adobe offered all help, yet Apple continued to drag its feet. It became obvious something was going on.
In April, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter, "Thoughts on Flash", stating, among other things, that HTML5 could deliver a superior experience to Flash and that Flash had such inherent security and performance problems that they could never be rectified.
These were lies, but Apple's henchmen in tech media, especially Wired and Gawker, repeated this lie endlessly, destroying a creative ecosystem and industry so that Apple could have its App Store.
The web is still to this day unable to deliver an experience like Flash could, and likely will never be able to.