It enabled Apple to negotiate deals with record labels eight years ago when every other company had tried and failed. Why were those deals important? They were the engine behind Apple’s iPod and iTunes store, which changed the way the world buys and listens to music.
Yes, I knew Apple would never add Flash. Yes, I knew it was probably an accident that they showed Flash. But Apple, as we see, does nothing without running it past a vat full of lawyers. That they showed Flash on an iPad running on the NY Times website was clearly a mistake and, more [...]
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