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I remember when the iPhone was “doomed to fail” because it didn’t support flash
Did anyone seriously believe that though? Killing Flash is approximately the only good thing the existence of the iPhone brought to the world.
The only people at the time who thought it was a good idea were people that liked apple products. Everyone else just complained that the web was 90% flash, so iPads/iPhones are useless.
There was more outrage at lack of flash support than there was from removing optical drives, and people put up quite a stink with that as well.
I remember 2007 well enough that I can definitely say that that was not true in 2007. Flash was widespread, but nowhere near 90%.
Well, youtube and video streaming sites (including porn) were flash
Yes, those things definitely were.
no, just the fun parts were flash 😭
itch.io doesn't hit the same as newgrounds
Huh. I never heard that. I remember everyone being super stoked that Flash was going to probably die because of the iPhone, and everyone loving it. (I didn't at the time, but I get now why it was Flash that was itself doomed to fail eventually)
Really?? Damn. It was a huge thing. Got a resurgence after the iPad came out and still didn’t support flash. Was a big circlejerk about it in every tech forum
I guess I didn't use those (or many other) forums. I don't remember anyone saying much negative about the iPhone in fact. With a few exceptions like when people pointed out that it didn't initially ship with copy/paste or downloadable apps. Most people overlooked those temporary shortcomings though, because: shiny.