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I have fond memories of these days (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I remember when the iPhone was “doomed to fail” because it didn’t support flash

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Did anyone seriously believe that though? Killing Flash is approximately the only good thing the existence of the iPhone brought to the world.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    the web was 90% flash

    I remember 2007 well enough that I can definitely say that that was not true in 2007. Flash was widespread, but nowhere near 90%.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    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.

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