Former Apple Employee Reveals Why the iPhone Never Supported Flash

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The world is now giving up on Adobe Flash Player for HTML5, mostly in an attempt to get better performance, improved security, and fewer bugs, but Apple is actually one of the first companies that tried to stay away from this particular tech.

Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs criticized Flash Player on several occasions and even posted an editorial piece to explain why Adobe’s solution didn’t have a future on mobile devices, even though Android rushed to embrace it.

In just a few words, Steve Jobs claimed Flash wasn’t designed to be a mobile technology and it lacked all the features that could have helped it run smoothly on smartphones, including battery optimizations and support for touchscreens.

But despite all of these, it turns out that the iPhone never supported Flash because of a completely different reason.

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