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Re:Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclu... by bitwize on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:48AM (#31059503)
It was Apple that decided Flash's fate, ever since Steve Jobs refused to support it on the most important end-user platform, like, ever.

Which is funny, because for years Flash only ever ran well on Mac OS 9 in Internet Explorer 5. Any other browser/OS combo and you were looking at dropped frames, and/or audio that couldn't keep in sync with the video. It really was a tool for designers, and accordingly Mac OS was the platform that got the most love.

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Re:Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclu... by whywhywhywhy on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:07AM (#31060571)
It’s funny because after his first comments about it’s performance being the reason Adobe magically fixed it in about 6 weeks and we finally had close performance parity with windows after years of Adobe saying it’s not possible.
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