"Apple always does this, killing off the old just like Peter Drucker said. There's at least two aspects to this: 1. Almost no one else does this aggressively the way Apple does. When it comes to TECHNOLOGY, they've been proven right about future trends more often than not, and more businesses ought to copy their example. 2. However, when the deprecated technology starts to impact the availability of CONTENT, it's a different matter. These transitions usually take much longer, and ought to, so as much content as possible can be available in the new format before the old is cut off. So yeah, Apple is quite possibly over the line on Flash. Maybe they should have given some warning, rather than leave people hoping they would add it to the iPhone OS up until quite recently, when now it seems that was not the plan at all." - Gordon Vaughan