8 thoughts on “The agonizingly slow decline of Flash”
One word: Google
Would you mind expounding on that thesis – so we can glean what you mean?
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to be overly cryptic. Google still requires Flash for things like YouTube (there are hacks around it). They also install a plugin and have it turned on by default for Chrome & ChromeOS to “support the open internet” or some such nonsense.
If they dropped their support for Flash the whole ugly thing would disappear a lot faster.
Support hasn’t been dropped, but it’s taken a back seat, as it should. Flash was good for its time, which is why it was so widely adopted and why it’s been so difficult to unseat. But it is, slowly, being replaced. That’s the real problem, not Google per se.
Thanks for responding, John. I understand where you’re coming from now.
Unfortunately I’m not entirely convinced that even Google could kill Flash. Too many people set in their ways.
Having said that Mobile basically killed Flash. The body is still thrashing but it’s dead, Jim.
I got rid of all things Adobe about a year ago.
Held my breath thinking life would be too hard without it.
Life has never been better.
I think the final graf of that article said it all. I imagine we might all be surprised to learn how few big-company CEOs even know what a browser is.
Every time my mom tells me she’s having a problem with her Mac, it’s either something Flash did, or she was tricked into installing some not-Flash malware.
One word: Google
Would you mind expounding on that thesis – so we can glean what you mean?
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to be overly cryptic. Google still requires Flash for things like YouTube (there are hacks around it). They also install a plugin and have it turned on by default for Chrome & ChromeOS to “support the open internet” or some such nonsense.
If they dropped their support for Flash the whole ugly thing would disappear a lot faster.
No hacks are needed on YouTube to use HTML these days HTML is the default for video. http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-flash-for-html5-video-default
Support hasn’t been dropped, but it’s taken a back seat, as it should. Flash was good for its time, which is why it was so widely adopted and why it’s been so difficult to unseat. But it is, slowly, being replaced. That’s the real problem, not Google per se.
Thanks for responding, John. I understand where you’re coming from now.
Unfortunately I’m not entirely convinced that even Google could kill Flash. Too many people set in their ways.
Having said that Mobile basically killed Flash. The body is still thrashing but it’s dead, Jim.
I got rid of all things Adobe about a year ago.
Held my breath thinking life would be too hard without it.
Life has never been better.
I think the final graf of that article said it all. I imagine we might all be surprised to learn how few big-company CEOs even know what a browser is.
Every time my mom tells me she’s having a problem with her Mac, it’s either something Flash did, or she was tricked into installing some not-Flash malware.