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Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by blackeyeblitzar on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:50PM (#43227079)
This. I can’t believe so many people fell for the scam claim that flash needed to die for security. No, Apple and Google needed it to die so they could control their respective platforms and rent seek.
Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by CharlesW on Sunday March 02, 2025 @02:03PM (#43233760)
It's a fun theory, but the Flash runtime was the #1 cause of Mac OS crashes. Jobs obviously took that — and Adobe's refusal to take that seriously — extremely personally.

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