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[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/25140646
karlbode.com/apple-ceo-tim-cooks-legacy-is-dull-products-and-spineless-capitulation/Replying to @GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
Fuck apple. I’ll never forgive jobs for nuking the internet. When jobs killed Flash in order to herd users into his app store, the internet was never the same.
Replying to @redditStinksSuperBad@lemmy.world
No, you’ve got it all wrong. Flash was buggy and insecure proprietary software written for proprietary OSes. I’m glad it died, after several years of trying to fight its normalization on the web, where you’d need to install shitty plugins like gnash on Linux to try to see the same web that people were seeing on Mac or Windows.
The web should always be built on open standards, and Flash was the biggest barrier to that ideal at the time that iPhones came out. Flash deserved to die, and I celebrated when it did.
Replying to @GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
nah hard disagree. Flash was the core of the web and it got gutted so Apple and Google so leach their 30% cut from their app stores. HTML / JS is still a buggy piece of crap that depends on what the major browser makers declare is valid, no better than adobe had with flash. Flash was the browser in the browser and they hated it.