The final reason stated is the only real reason why Apple blocked Flash: they didn’t want any cross-platform runtime when it became clear they were winning. They only grudgingly accepted HTML because it was unavoidable, but embarked on a deliberate program to limit Safari’s capabilities to hamper the web as a platform (just like Microsoft did with IE ten years earlier).
In the late 1990s Steve Jobs was a big fan of Cocoa-Java because he thought a cross-platform language and runtime could help adoption of his company’s middleware product. In 2010 he was very much against middleware and cross-platform runtimes. That’s how it goes. The thing you’re selling at that moment is always the right answer.
In the late 1990s Steve Jobs was a big fan of Cocoa-Java because he thought a cross-platform language and runtime could help adoption of his company’s middleware product. In 2010 he was very much against middleware and cross-platform runtimes. That’s how it goes. The thing you’re selling at that moment is always the right answer.