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> It's really a shame that Adobe's absolute garbage treatment of Flash

People praised Steve Jobs' decision that the iPhone shall have no support for Flash, and evangelized that Flash shall be dead - the future shall be HTML5.

Everybody who said something else was treated as an Adobe shill.

dmitriid on April 17, 2022 [–]

All points that Jobs made against Flash were correct, as Adobe had really dropped the ball on Flash.

After that it was too late, and Adobe killed flash only two years after Jobs' letter.

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