Most famously, Steve Jobs rejected Flash for Apple devices in 2010. In addition, it is resource-hungry and buggy even after more than twenty years of steady development.īecause of the security problems, some platforms won’t support Flash at all. In recent years, as many as 80% of known exploit kits have used Flash as one of their vectors. It is a security risk, with many exploits and malware packages using it as an infection vector. However, Flash has some fatal flaws as well. Flash has a number of positive features, most especially the ability to create content just once and have it play well on a variety of platforms. Originally created by Macromedia in the 1990s, Flash was acquired by Adobe in 2005. Flash is the name of computer software that runs on a number of different platforms and plays multimedia content, and it is also the name of the platform for creating that content. If you’ve done anything on a computer involving graphics and sound in the last 25 years or so, then you’ve worked with Flash, even if you didn’t know it.
