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> At that point, Chrome will be a capital-P-Platform: exactly the same as Silverlight/Adobe Air/etc.

Or Flash, or Java...and look how well things have worked out for all those "write once, run anywhere" client app platforms!



Flash was very successful as a client app platform, and Chrome has clearly avoided Java's client-side failure mode already.


Which goes to show. In hindsight Adobe shoulda built their own browser or forked Firefox or bought Opera...


No, they should have gotten flash to run really good on mobile, crappy or no flash on mobile was the downfall of flash.


True. Hadn't thought of that. Or done both.




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