While Flash will likely become irrelevant over time, this move by Apple should not be condoned by anyone. It could have been any other technology that they are not interested in partnering with.

Nearly all my hardware (computers, smart phones, wifi, tablet) are Apple products, and I m very unhappy with what Apple is doing here——they are obviously aggressively trying to kill or stifle the Flash technology. This is going too far; this is not about Flash not working well on the iPhone, as Apple has publicly claimed.

I have personally developed a ground-breaking Adobe AIR application that used Hardware acceleration on the MAC to play 1080 videos at fullscreen. Here is the link to the case study on the application: http://interhaptic.com/case-studies/profiles-in-science/

Irrespective of the technology, this kind of stifling of technology should be spoken out against.