I remember watching Steve Jobs sitting on a couch during the iPad's first keynote: people were legitimately shocked to see that it couldn't display a Flash ad as he browsed the internet during the demo.  Some people wrote it off as an unfinished product, ‘the final version will surely ship with Flash.’  When it didn't, the technology world threw a fit and called Apple closed-minded.  Pundits also believed Apple tried to cover up the lack [...]