Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Steve Jobs nailed it; desktop Flash will join mobile Flash to the grave in 2020

Adobe today made an announcement that Steve Jobs predicted it would make over seven years ago. It was the beginning of 2010 and Jobs had just unveiled the first Apple iPad just days before. Hosting a Town Hall Q&A session in front of Apple employees, Jobs went after Adobe and Flash, calling the latter buggy (and a battery drain, he later wrote). He also made the prediction that no one will be using Flash in the future as HTML5 would replace it. At the time, updates were allowing various Android phones like the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One to support Flash animation. Android users who were ...

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