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We are removing Flash support from OS X (fakesteve.net)
36 points by ilamont on April 29, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



I don't know, Lyons tends to be really hit or miss with these. The style just doesn't feel right on this one, at least compared to some of the razor-sharp classics such as the Randall Stephenson one: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/12/a-not-so-brief-chat-with-ra...

Still, the close was fantastic:

That is all for now. For a longer explanation of why these changes make sense, stay tuned to John Gruber.


Sorry Gawker and Google

"Gawker Media Web sites will not be supported in Safari. Purely for technology reasons. Same for advertisements sold by Google. They were fine in the PC era. But now they just look ugly."


I love fakesteve and this one is pure gold.

"Also: As of some other day really soon, certain phone numbers will not work on iPhone, both for incoming and outgoing calls. We won’t tell you which numbers these are, but trust us, they’re not numbers you should be calling, and definitely not numbers you want calling you. If you encounter a problem connecting a phone call, and call us to find out if this number is on our blocked list, we will tell you the following: “That information is not available.”"

It would be funny if it wasn't actually really scary. Actually, it's still pretty funny.


I love how he's positioned Gruber as the official mouthpiece in the past few posts.


This is the strongest argument against Jobs' anti-Flash post today I have read, and the only one that doesn't mis-paraphrase it.

The rebuttal to this parody, though, is this: If Flash were booted from OS X, within months, much of the content users would be missing would be available in ways other than Flash, and IMO, the world would be a better place.


I think 'hilarious' is the word to describe this.




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