The former Apple’s CEO was against Flash because it was 100% property of a private company despite being widely available. In contrast, HTML5, CSS, Javascript are open systems which is why Apple decided to adopt them. Steve argued that Flash is a closed system because it’s developed and owned by Adobe.
In fact, he explicitly mentioned that protecting the App Store was never the main reason behind Apple’s stance against Flash. Ultimately, the result became what we know as HTML5.Īs highlighted is in his article, Jobs main concern was never security. Jobs pushed hard for an upgrade to HTML to support videos without Flash. In an article published on in April 2010, Steve highlighted the reasons why Adobe Flash Player will never be an official component of Safari, Apple’s integrated web browser. Although Adobe has written and published instructions to run Flash on iOS, Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, and former CEO, famously fought against the free programs and, namely, free Adobe software.
