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leeoniya on June 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: ARM Mac Impact on Intel

remember that time Jobs flat out said no to Flash on iOS due to security? that was when flash was the dominant tech for delivering multimedia.

harpratap on June 22, 2020 [–]

I believe he said no to flash because it was a battery hogging tech and would have rendered early smartphones basically useless as portable devices.

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