> Flex and Flash meanwhile died slow deaths because Steve was a meanie
I realize the author is joking but a lot of people still think Flash died because of the iPhone or that thing Jobs wrote. I think that's wrong.
I was a Flash dev for years. Started using it doing website intros and CD-Roms in 98-99. The last full Flash website I worked on was in 2010 and then I kept using it until 2014 or so doing Adobe Air apps for museums and a couple of iPads apps.
IMO Apple didn't kill the Flash Player for the web. Improvements in browsers like HTML5 and CSS3 did. Maybe the iPhone accelerated that, but it always just a matter of time. A coworker of mine predicted it already back in 2007 or so, even when it really was at its peak.
As for Flash, the technology itself, Adobe killed it. Flash could have been the best way to build crossplatform apps, something like Flutter, but Adobe decided to remove funding from the project and it slowly died. It canceled Flash Next (as it was known back then) which the rumors said would have fixed a lot of issues with security and performance and brough a new major version of the ActionScript language.
For more details, I wrote this when I decided to stop working with Adobe Air back in late 2014:
I realize the author is joking but a lot of people still think Flash died because of the iPhone or that thing Jobs wrote. I think that's wrong.
I was a Flash dev for years. Started using it doing website intros and CD-Roms in 98-99. The last full Flash website I worked on was in 2010 and then I kept using it until 2014 or so doing Adobe Air apps for museums and a couple of iPads apps.
IMO Apple didn't kill the Flash Player for the web. Improvements in browsers like HTML5 and CSS3 did. Maybe the iPhone accelerated that, but it always just a matter of time. A coworker of mine predicted it already back in 2007 or so, even when it really was at its peak.
As for Flash, the technology itself, Adobe killed it. Flash could have been the best way to build crossplatform apps, something like Flutter, but Adobe decided to remove funding from the project and it slowly died. It canceled Flash Next (as it was known back then) which the rumors said would have fixed a lot of issues with security and performance and brough a new major version of the ActionScript language.
For more details, I wrote this when I decided to stop working with Adobe Air back in late 2014:
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