The article is dated 2010. The App Store was opened in 2008. The iPhone was released in 2007. Flash was not present from the start, and the intention at releas

The article is dated 2010. The App Store was opened in 2008. The iPhone was released in 2007. Flash was not present from the start, and the intention at release in 2007 was that web applications would be how 3rd party developers developed for the iPhone. The decision not to have Flash on the iPhone in 2007 cannot possibly have been to drive downloads from an App Store that did not exist.