Blame 60 Minutes for using the most ubiquitous web video technology instead of blaming Apple for not supporting it.
So has Microsoft for the new Metro browser.
So has Adobe, for that matter, if you read between the lines (yeah, they've only "officially" dropped mobile Flash, but desktop Flash is on deathwatch).
A year from now neither any new mobile device nor the default browser on desktop Windows will have Flash.
Time to learn some new tools.