Except... that's not what happened...
"Writing applications that run in a browser, instead of the native OS, changed the way the world viewed PC software. The end of mobile Flash may be a precursor to the same revolution on mobile devices."
If you take a look at the iPhone and Android, you'll notice that what actually happened is that the lack of Flash has led to the proliferation of platform specific *applications* that are nothing more than webscrapers.
Why is there a BBC iPlayer application for the iPad when there's a web-based version? Because you can get much richer and cleaner experience when you write a native app.
What's unfortunate is that everyone has entirely misread what Jobs said and more importantly *why* he said it - and because we have a coincidence, are making really bizarre conclusions.
For example... Flash is dead. No, not really - there are billions (literally) of desktop and laptop systems. Those will keep Flash alive for quite a long time.
Mobile Flash didn't die - it never got born. Apple refused to allow it on their platforms. Android couldn't handle it until recently and then it was a crap shoot as to which actual device could or could not support it because of the highly fragmented nature of the Android platform. (Note: same problem exists for video calling).
Adobe could either spend massive amounts of time chasing this constantly moving target for very little revenue - or get out. A sane company would have just waited.
