U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown

Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by Mindwipe on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:59AM (#26832313)

> It’s not competitive advantage, it’s strategy

It's 100% competitive advantage. The main driver of Apple's lack of support for Flash was to damage the web's ability to distribute DRMed video and force it into apps on iOS, where Apple could rent seek a 30% commission from subscription fees.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by lotsofpulp on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:01AM (#26832329)

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the App Store was not even around for the first iPhone.

Perhaps the decision to not include flash could have been due to performance/battery?

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by eecc on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:40AM (#26832650)

Precisely. Jobs didn’t want to be at the mercy of anyone else’s priority, strategies or convenience.

Remember: Adobe was dragging its feet on MacOS because why bother, Windows PC is the market, iPhone was mostly welcomed as a “won’t fly” and Flash for iOS would have been another drama of unfixed vuls, shoddy performance and battery drain. (I guess everyone forgot or wasn't still around, reminder: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/134551-why-flash-faile...)

Not unreasonable to imagine Google making Chrome engine prio 1 on Android and “perhaps later” on iOS.

You can imagine how well Jobs took that.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by briandear on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:57AM (#26833297)

Nonsense. There is extensive writing on the subject including internal memos from Steve Jobs on Flash — and you are 100% incorrect.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by eecc on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:49PM (#26838343)

Can you elaborate and link to sources plz?

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