{"id":1499,"date":"2007-07-06T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T03:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/why-iphone-doesnt-include-flash\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T23:33:16","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T03:33:16","slug":"why-iphone-doesnt-include-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/why-iphone-doesnt-include-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Why iPhone Doesn&rsquo;t Include Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/?comments=1&amp;postid=3432\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/?comments=1&amp;postid=3432\">\r\n<p>I have a theory that I haven&rsquo;t heard yet: Flash wasn&rsquo;t included <em>because it crashes so much<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nReading the comments, there are apparently lots of other good reasons.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nBy the way, the iPhone isn&rsquo;t the first Apple product to be <a href=\"http:\/\/davidweiss.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/iphone-user-guide-anthropomorphic.html\">anthropomorphic<\/a>. Apple often omits the article from &ldquo;Macintosh&rdquo; and &ldquo;iPod,&rdquo; and sometimes even &ldquo;Finder.&rdquo; (Apple&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/UserExperience\/Conceptual\/APStyleGuide\/AppleStyleGuide2006.pdf\">style guide<\/a> recommends &ldquo;Macintosh computer,&rdquo; &ldquo;the Finder,&rdquo; &ldquo;iPod,&rdquo; and &ldquo;iPod digital music players.&rdquo;)\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons: I have a theory that I haven&rsquo;t heard yet: Flash wasn&rsquo;t included because it crashes so much. Reading the comments, there are apparently lots of other good reasons. By the way, the iPhone isn&rsquo;t the first Apple product to be anthropomorphic. Apple often omits the article from &ldquo;Macintosh&rdquo; and &ldquo;iPod,&rdquo; and sometimes even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}