alt Hacker NewsNo it was a usability nightmare. Watching Flash Youtube on Android technically worked but it was a horrible experience.
Google were ok with "works but janky af", but Apple weren't.
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croes • 11/05/2025
It can be both but it definitely had a security problem
> Mitre lists more than 1,000 Adobe Flash vulnerabilities.
>Flash ranks 14th on the list of products ranked by the number of vulnerabilities – one of only two applications in the top 25 that aren’t operating systems or browsers.
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/security-and-risk-manage...
We could have kept that creative environment (that seem to just disappear without any alternative to this day) while leaving videos to evolve as they did.
People here complain like they have issues with long term memory, but reality was - there was no real web video before. That apple had more issues than others was problem that should have been contained to apple walled garden alone. World was, is and will be much larger than that.