I'd argue the point is not how the public felt about about Flash, but how device makers saw it. Flash didn't make it on any other mobile platform. Serious atte

I'd argue the point is not how the public felt about about Flash, but how device makers saw it. Flash didn't make it on any other mobile platform. Serious attempts were being made way earlier than the iPhone, including for Symbian [0], making it available for high end feature phones. But all of them were horribly limited, and none could solve the rift between desktop Flash and low power devices flash. Jobs saying that Flash won't make it on the iPhone was the equivalent of announcing that the iPhone wouldn't use Intel chips, it was just putting a stake on a dead body so everyone could stop trying to revive it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Mobile_devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Mobile_devices