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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by amelius on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:42PM (#25588189)
> Apple wanted to kill flash because it was CPU intensive and Jobs hated it.

Of course he hated it, because now everybody is writing software specifically for Apple instead of for the web.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by colejohnson66 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:53PM (#25588275)
That’s revisionism. When the iPhone first came out, apps weren’t a thing. Jobs advocated for PWA (he didn’t want apps), but people complained about performance. So Apple added the App Store with iPhone OS 2.0.
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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by studius on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:47PM (#25588652)
> apps weren’t a thing

Yes and no. iPhone apps weren't a thing until they were, but there were Brew apps[1], Symbian apps[2], Blackberry apps[3], Palm apps[4], etc.

[1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Runtime_Environment_for...

[2]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

[3]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_World

[4]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_OS

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by colejohnson66 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:49PM (#25588665)
True true. But I was talking about just iPhone apps
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