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>Refusing to support older technologies helps encourage people to start using the newer technologies.

If by "newer technologies" you mean "The Apple App Store" then you have a point. If you mean HTML5, then you have been taken to the cleaners are terribly gullible.

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I specifically prefaced my comment by saying "regardless of the whole Apple/Flash issue".

However, i'll bite. Why would I be gullible for believing that HTML 5 (and by extention, the APIs such as canvas and offline storage) is newer than Flash? Acording to Wikipedia, the first working draft of HTML 5 was published in 2008. Flash has been around for a lot longer than this.

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