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tarkin2 on July 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kongregate closed to new games, shutting down foru...

Flash posed a threat to Apple’s walled garden.

Apple wants you to download an iPhone app (and buy the iPhone for that)

If all a user needs to do is open a browser tab, on any device, and have an good app-like experience they hardly need an iPhone.

The web never really caught up with the experience flash gave the user.

And Apple benefited.

Pulcinella on July 2, 2020 [–]

Can’t you still open a browser tab? Web apps do exist. How is that any different?

tarkin2 on July 2, 2020 | [–]

As mentioned elsewhere, the experience flash gave has never been beat in most cases.

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