I'm growing tired of people still trotting out the old trope about "Steve Jobs… prohibiting Flash web players across all iOS devices." Flash isn't prohibited in

I'm growing tired of people still trotting out the old trope about "Steve Jobs… prohibiting Flash web players across all iOS devices." Flash isn't prohibited in iOS, it was never enabled in the first place! That phrasing implies that Apple expended developer effort to ensure that Flash wouldn't work on the iPhone, which is an inaccurate characterization of what actually happened.