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

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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