If Apple's serious about being anti-Flash, this is another way, over time, to reduce the overall number of copies of Flash in the world (they say there are 50M

If Apple's serious about being anti-Flash, this is another way, over time, to reduce the overall number of copies of Flash in the world (they say there are 50M active Mac OS X users), if everyone has to download it first. In fact, if they just drop the percentage of pre-installed Flash engines from 95% to 90% to 85% to 80%, etc., then the Flash ubiquity argument falls apart, and further hastens the decline of its influence. (Personally, I'm all for it. I just see Flash as Adobe's cynical attempt to create an alternative (and lousy) operating system that runs on all the existing systems.)