His real reason is also his weakest point, and the one that sours it for me. It impacts not only Flash but other quality third party solutions, which tells me that he is consciously trying to restrict cross-platform development (or at least, apps being migrated from iPhone elsewhere) so that the platform can remain exclusive. In practice he makes life more difficult for developers (if the TOS is strictly applied) who have to reinvent the wheel for certain solutions. And, ultimately, hurts customers who may not get their apps easily ported to the iPhone.

His so-called logic does not hold water... Flash is just a great and convenient scapegoat, and I even agree with some of the reasons prior. But his last point is embarrasingly lame and transparent

Good point... but I think incomplete. If Apple were only about protecting the user experience from a technical perspective - then, fine. But this is not only regarding technical matters, but also content. If you are providing a channel to sell content then you can only go so far in restricting it, and you better be consistent about it. The removal of so called adult content recently has been an embarrassment. Why is Sports Illustrated and Playboy still out there while smaller apps with similar content got booted? I do think Apple is stepping over a line of credibility. True - the licence agreement allows Apple to do what they want, and developers agree to abide to it at their own risk. The point is it is frustrating when the risk is so much higher due to the arbitrariness of the Apple criteria process. Apple can only pull of this stunt now because it is in a better competitive position, but the issue I see here is that it will not endear them to their customer base, i.e. the developers. After all, the developers are the ones who provide the possibility of revenue generation by taking the risk of developing for the Apple store.

Actually, this is what the DAs are all about. What you see is that the incredibly stupid have already removed themselves from the gene pool. So these are really only astoundingly stupid deaths. You can plot these on a graph, probably, with the degree of stupidity on the y axis, and time on the x-axis. It will take more time for events to be logged as the stupidity of the participants necessarily decreases. The more stupid you are, the more quickly you act. The lameness of these new deaths is an expected result, if you ask me.