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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by 0xCMP on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @12:04PM (#16116622)
Most users did not want flash. Most users don't want web apps or apps inside web views, but they'll use those if they have to. Why switch phones to get flash if you really wanted a native experience in the first place?
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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by scarface74 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @03:40PM (#16118854)
"Most users didn't want Flash". That's a lot of revisionist history. Apple was being knocked for not supporting Flash from the time the first iPhone was released in 2007 until a year or two after the iPad was released in 2010.
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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by simonh on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:39PM (#16119821)
Rephrase, most users didn’t want phones that burned up their battery capacity, or more often just out and out crashed repeatedly when playing videos.
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