You don't have to be a villain to say Flash must die<article>
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I won’t pretend to be Steve Jobs—I don’t even own a mock turtleneck—but I have to
repeat his words from April 2010: “Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content.” Flash is a constantly exploited, superannuated bit of technology that useful in the early days of multimedia in web browsers, and now deserves to die.</p><p>
When Jobs wrote “Thoughts on Flash” over five years ago, it was in response to the notion that Flash should be available on iOS. At the time, I asked repeatedly for Adobe to stage demonstrations in private using iOS development tools to show Flash running. They never took me up on it, or any other writer that I’m aware of, even though they had the ability. Flash for Android, when it appeared, was terrible. Within two years, it was dead.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2948131/software-web/you-dont-have-to-be-a-villain-to-say-flash-must-die.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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You don't have to be a villain to say Flash must die
