I don't think it's necessarily a mistake if your goal is to strong-arm the industry towards abandoning Flash.
And you thought the iPhone was just Apple's way of muscling into the mobile business! No, it’s really a proactive battle against a wide swatch of proprietary platforms promising to plague a new wave of mobile devices."
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