“Jobs was right about Flash, though, in relation to Apple products. They couldn’t make Flash run well on mobile devices.”

Did he specifically say anything about idolizing Jobs, or Apple?

Not at all. If anything, programmers are worse than average at knowing the history of their field. As Alan Kay has said, when you don’t learn history, you get a pop culture, not a culture. Computer science education generally does not include its own history, apart from a few important algorithms.

Er, what about Shumway?

So even though “the reality was that Steve had an ax to grind with Adobe” and “was a dick” ... Chrome and Firefox blocked Flash over security concerns, and Facebook’s chief of security called for Adobe to bury it? It’s remarkable that Steve’s “Reality Distortion Field” not only extends years beyond his death, but to…