Adobe's failure
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“To ignore a major component of the Internet like Flash seems a little silly,” said John Warnock, a founder of Adobe. Mr. Warnock said Mr. Jobs would have proceeded more cautiously when the company had less clout. “Apple does what it does,” he said. “But I don’t think that they would have made a decision like this 10 years ago.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/2…
However 10 years ago, Apple didn't even have an iPhone. Two years ago, Apple launched the iPhone and it too didn't have Flash. How do you complain about something two years late?
Companies like Adobe are now fueling a reputation that Apple is being a bully which is far from the case. Surprisingly the makers of 3.5 floppies didn't complain this much when Apple decided not to use them in their computers. Apple has a habit of discarding useless technologies that people do not need anymore. Zip disks, CD-Roms, etc... our iPads, iPhones, iPods work fine without them.