> Similar to how Jobs set out to destroy Adobe by removing Flash from iPhones.
This isn’t a correct take, and your facts are wrong. For one thing, Flash never existed on iPhones to begin with, so there was nothing to remove.
Adobe spent years talking about their plans to get Flash working on phones, but never succeeded, not on iOS or on Android. Come on — if Flash were really that great on mobile devices, why isn’t everyone still using it on Android? Answer — sucked.
Performance and stability sucked, security sucked. Apple said for years that their most commonly-reported crashes were caused by Flash. Flash was great for creators, one of the best such tools ever made, but after acquiring it from Macromedia, Adobe never improved the fundamentals.
Even more important, the interaction model didn’t work. Many Flash sites/apps depended on hover/mouseover which didn’t translate to touch screens. Neither Adobe nor anyone else has demonstrated how to make this work.
And as for destroying Adobe, well, they seem to be doing just fine, even though Flash has been gone for years. Apple never wanted Adobe to die, nor intended to.
Steve Jobs made clear why Apple wasn’t supporting Flash on iOS, and his reasons still hold — https://newslang.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Thoughts-on-F...
I could find you similar articles saying that Steve Jobs wanted to hit back at Apple because he was mad at them, and merely used the tech reason as an excuse.
I think you’re right though, I don’t know for a fact that that’s true. Nobody can really know the deeper reasons behind this move.
But my point is that people should stop looking at Elon musk as a “fun and weird guy doing crazy things” and more as a ruthless shark who will take whatever is required to win. Which is typical of Silicon Valley CEOs
This isn’t a correct take, and your facts are wrong. For one thing, Flash never existed on iPhones to begin with, so there was nothing to remove.
Adobe spent years talking about their plans to get Flash working on phones, but never succeeded, not on iOS or on Android. Come on — if Flash were really that great on mobile devices, why isn’t everyone still using it on Android? Answer — sucked.
Performance and stability sucked, security sucked. Apple said for years that their most commonly-reported crashes were caused by Flash. Flash was great for creators, one of the best such tools ever made, but after acquiring it from Macromedia, Adobe never improved the fundamentals.
Even more important, the interaction model didn’t work. Many Flash sites/apps depended on hover/mouseover which didn’t translate to touch screens. Neither Adobe nor anyone else has demonstrated how to make this work.
And as for destroying Adobe, well, they seem to be doing just fine, even though Flash has been gone for years. Apple never wanted Adobe to die, nor intended to. Steve Jobs made clear why Apple wasn’t supporting Flash on iOS, and his reasons still hold — https://newslang.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Thoughts-on-F...