iPhone didn't replace Flash: the intent was to be be smartphone, not a data distribution format... iPhone browser, like MacOS browser, drop support for Flash (

iPhone didn't replace Flash: the intent was to be be smartphone, not a data distribution format... iPhone browser, like MacOS browser, drop support for Flash (and most plugins in fact but Flash was the most noticeable.) In the other hand, HTML5 was adopted quickly by Apple. So we can say that HTML5 replaced Flash (not iPhone per se, as it didn't come with a specific replacement first and an alternative was already there second.) However, I wouldn't say that HTML5 is the drop-in replacement of Flash. It did help to avoid this later on some common use cases with video and audio tags and standardisation of formats (that also kill use of QuickTime/WindowsMedia/RealMedia plugins)