This is spot on, IdeaHamster. I think the main question Apple asked itself is "why do we ship Flash with every Mac?". The answer is that back in the day when Fl

This is spot on, IdeaHamster. I think the main question Apple asked itself is "why do we ship Flash with every Mac?". The answer is that back in the day when Flash was added, Adobe was a very good partner, and Flash was cool. These days, Adobe is turning more an more into an enemy - even holding talks with arch-enemy Microsoft. So if you asked again - why do we ship Macs with Flash - the answer would be: We shouldn't. It should just be yet another plug-in that needs to be installed. I think the bottom line is, there are good technical reasons, and there are good political reasons to dump Flash from the OS. It's about 50/50. Adobe has some power with Flash but it's standing on pretty shaky ground - videos work just as well in HTML5 which leaves Facebook games as the one application that really matters.