Marco Arment precisely pinpoints why the death of mobile Flash is so awesome:

Since web browsing is booming on mobile devices, web developers must build in non-Flash equivalents to any Flash functionality. iOS’ popularity has made this effectively true for years, but now the most die-hard holdouts have no hope to cling to: widespread Flash support on mobile devices will definitely never happen now, so it’s irresponsible and against nearly every site owner’s best interests to make any Flash-only functionality today.

It may sound ridiculous, but when I read about the end of Flash on Mobile this morning (in Instapaper, of course) I felt incredibly relieved, as if a weight that has been on my (or rather, our collective) shoulders for years had finally been lifted. I applaud Adobe for taking this step; it was clear that Flash was the past and better be left there for many, but not all. Now that it’s officially being ended, even those that supported it just for the sake of supporting something that might hinder Apple will eventually realize that the future looks different. And that includes Adobe itself, which just regained a lot of the respect and sympathy they’ve lost over the past few years by trying to fight against windmills even after they’ve been told that it’s not in their best interest.