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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by lesuorac on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:25AM (#36985563)
> However, Apple did not attempt to divide the web then use it's dominant position to make all the content only compatible with their stuff.

Flash would like a word with you.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by mrtksn on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:27AM (#36985582)
Flash died due to its own sins. Apple never had a dominant marketshare to do that, Apple simply did not let that crap on its mobile platform which had %0 marketshare when that happened. Then the open web standards that can do most of the stuff that Flash was used for took over.

Google tried to support Flash, even it was listed as Android's "strength" over iOS but the tech that came to handle the most use cases of Flash was much superior and it killed Flash on desktop too.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by brookst on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:35AM (#36985683)
Flash was a web standard?
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