> (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when I remember the lac

> (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when I remember the lack of Flash support on iOS being fairly controversial at the time. IMHO, it was the combination of lack of iOS support + iOS usage skyrocketing that killed Flash; not that iOS dropped Flash because it was already dying.