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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by 8note on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:28PM (#25586976)
That's a generous interpretation vs Apple wanting a monopoly on deciding what apps can run on iphones

Not supporting flash is the basis for the app store

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by mirthflat83 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:06PM (#25587381)
No. Apple was pushing for HTML5. In fact, they were imagining iOS Safari as an app platform in the beginning.
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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by colejohnson66 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:55PM (#25588288)
Nope. The App Store wasn’t even a thing until iPhone OS 2.0 a whole year later. As mirthflat83 said, Jobs wanted an HTML5 future.
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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by sergeykish on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:49AM (#25592641)
> Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February.

— Steve Jobs, October 10, 2007 (three month after iPhone release) [1].

How long does it takes to create SDK? Jobs is too smart, he carefully creates narrative, he is playing with audience. It is just a show, think Freddie Mercury, I do not understand how anyone can take his words at face value.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-iphone-sdk-in-dev-hands-febru...

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