The Great Intermediary Panic (opens in new tab)

That would never have worked if people weren't already fed up to here with Flash.It was bloated, buggy, slow, and by far the single biggest vector for malware. Like, by orders of magnitude. Not to mention being a proprietary black box that didn't interoperate with the rest of the web stack, and toxic to accessibility.If Flash were genuinely a beloved technology that everyone but Jobs wanted to keep, he would've lost that battle sooner or later.And Apple has absolutely been a friend to the fur...