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Originally Posted by MovieBird
Eh? It's the geeky users that actually understand why Flash is a PoS. It's the geeky users that are pushing HTML5 because of its superiority to Flash, in many cases refusing to use Flash at all.
It's the general consumer that gets pissed off when they can't use the buttons on their favorite website because Apple hates Flash. Yet they still flock to Apple products, showing that telegraphing your coolness to others is more important than assessing your own needs for a product.
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Let's not rewrite history here. One of the major objections the tech crowd had to the IPad was that it didn't do Flash. Apple was attacked for its "arrogance" and and major tech pundits predicted that the Ipad would fail because Flash was a major part of the Internet and that consumers would reject a no-Flash Internet experience.
A major selling point for Android was supposed to to be that its tablets would run Flash. AS it happened, consumers embraced the Ipad from day one, its lack of Flash notwithstanding. When Andriod tablets did appear, their Flash implementation was uniformly awful, thus proving Apple's point.
I guess the new anti-Apple talking points are that HTML 5 was always the future and that Apple somehow shortchanged once again the sheep who bought Apple products by not including Flash on the Ipad. They can't just admit that Apple was right about Flash for mobile devices.