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Yep. At the time, it was kind of a controversial decision. Now it seems obvious.

• ChrisSD 6y ago
  That Flash should be deprecated wasn't controversial (at least amongst tech savvy people). What was controversial was not supporting it at all, because doing so locked out a lot of the web of the time. Especially certain enterprise sites but also a lot of video sites or even ordering a taxi in some cases. That said, the iPhone was in a particularly unique position to push through a change like this and force websites to adapt. iPhones were becoming popular with upper management so a website that didn't work for them was actually considered an issue worth addressing. Nowadays Chrome would also have a good chance of forcing similar changes.