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neuroblastertoday at 12:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Right. And Flash wouldn't end until Jobs won't come out on stage and say that Flash is eating the battery and Apple won't support Flash in their next iPhone, then Flash just ceased to exist. Apparently nobody needed innovative frontends anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There is no break pedal on this stuff, it just rolls down the hill until eventually it doesn't. It's a runaway process that feeds itself.


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emodendrokettoday at 1:01 PM

He was able to do that because there were equivalent capabilities out there though.