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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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