Bye Flash :(
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I think that's part of the answer twokids. Another reason might be that by simply whipping up a controversy, he guaranteed the iPad would be in tech news headlines almost every day for a few months. Sort of the "no news coverage is bad" philosophy:)
I also think people over exaggerate how much Apple has done to "hurt" Flash. If Jobs is guilty of anything, it's been not explaining the whole thing in great detail.
Go back to the Thoughts on Flash thing, all he really said is that despite Adobe's inability to ship Flash, HTML5 serves as a good substitute on the iPad. And that long-term, it's the future (plenty of other people including the CEOs of Google and Microsoft have said this too).
Now like I said...he's oversimplifying. HTML5 definitely isn't ready to recreate the experience of the Ecozoo or whatever today. It can't yet replace banner ads (although that seems to be on the horizon now). But read between the lines, what he's really talking about here, from a consumer and perspective, is video. That's how Flash always gets framed in mainstream news and business articles, as a video plugin. It may not be fair from the perspective of someone who develops Flash marketing sites for a living but in terms of numbers that IS the overwhelming use of Flash.
And on that point, Jobs was exactly right. HTML5 does provide an equally good alternative right now, and especially on the iPad.
You can quibble about the "Flash performance sucks" part, but I think that was the overwhelming point of the article. Your average consumer is worried about not being able to watch the newest Gaga video or kittens climb out of a bottle on YouTube? Don't worry, HTML5 video will work.