Excellent article. One thing I do want to point out is that it's recently come to light that Apple actually did try to push for Flash Player on the iPhone, and

Excellent article. One thing I do want to point out is that it's recently come to light that Apple actually did try to push for Flash Player on the iPhone, and later, on the iPad. It came down to two problems: 1. Surmountable engineering problems. Flash on phones ran like crap... like everything else on early iPhone prototypes. Apple did a shitton of work to get the iPhone to fit on hilariously underpowered hardware, a journey Adobe never really undertook 2. The CEO of Adobe wouldn't take Steve Jobs's calls Adobe was disinvited from the iPhone party not because it competed with the App Store (they didn't even HAVE an App Store at launch), but because Adobe was (and still is) a company that fundamentally does not understand touch input or mobile devices. Or anything that requires substantial engineering investment. Hell, Flash wasn't even their baby, their competitor Macromedia did most of the work. Even AS3 had to have been in development pre-aquisition (given the stories I heard about them trying to license Java).