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I loved Jobs' vision of HTML5 being the app platform, and getting rid of flash.
Instead he got voted down, and we got the early death of flash with the replacement being a walled-garden app store, setting the web back for years.
They're starting to get their act together (I'm looking at you Web Push Notifications) but it's been a long, painful road.
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I loved Jobs' vision of HTML5 being the app platform, and getting rid of flash.
Instead he got voted down, and we got the early death of flash with the replacement being a walled-garden app store, setting the web back for years.
They're starting to get their act together (I'm looking at you Web Push Notifications) but it's been a long, painful road.