Musing and Gadgets

Why do We Need to Save Flash .  When I woke up this AM I saw a tweet from one of my followers that said can Flash be save. Which got me thinking, how people assign real world ideas to the Internet. When most people talk about saving something they are usually talking about a physical object like a building. After all Flash is a set of codes, even if no one uses it, it will still exists. I am sure there are codes that out in the wild that were once used but no longer are, but the code still exist.

Of course this leads to the second question, which is do we keep using a code, because it everywhere even if there maybe better things available. The fact that something is everywhere is not enough reason to maintain it. At one time almost everyone drove a Model T, when something better came along it would of seem silly to say we have to save the Model T because it is everywhere. Why then do people feel the need to save Flash is it simply that it is familiar to them and it is easy to use and install. I don't have the answer to this question, I can only guess it is the same there are some people who still use IE6. Staying put is easy, change can be difficult and takes effort,

If it was only Steve Jobs who didn't like Flash, then I would put it up to sour grapes. However, many other people complain that Flash is unreliable and use up far more resources then it should.  Personally when my browser crashes or a page freezes I will typically see the message at the top of the page that says some flash enclosure has stopped working. So my question is why should we maintain flash, other then its everywhere, which isn't a good reason in my mind.