Read This: The race to prevent the complete demise of Adobe Flash
Vice has written an article that invites us to second-guess our collective disdain for Adobe Flash. The cross-platform software suite has become shorthand for obsolete, CPU-sapping web monstrosities: Sitting through a slow build of animation and music was once the common price of admission to access the portfolio of a wedding photographer, artisanal cheesemaker, or digital media agency. Flash’s demise was hastened by Apple’s decision not to include Flash player in iOS, which helped usher in HTML5 as a replacement (albeit an incomplete one). A controversial choice at the time, the iPhone’s Flash-free environment proved to be the beginning of a trend.