Apple has had a long history of being assaulted by consumers for not supporting Flash on its mobile devices such as the iPhone, iTouch, and more recently the iPad. They have cited numerous reasons for this, such as a large chunk of Flash relies on mouse actions (ex: rollover) and because its creator, Adobe, wants developers to use flash as a creation tool for apps that run on the various Apple touch devices.
In an open letter on Apple.com back in April, Steve Jobs lists many reasons that Flash will have no future with Apple. That letter apparently spoke for the entirety of Apple, because they announced that Adobe Flash will be deprecated from all Apple operating systems and that it will also not be included in Lion, the upcoming Apple OS.
While one can go on and on about Apple vs Flash, another recent deprecation from Apple operating systems is support for Java. Apple has not had much to say about Java in the recent past, but it did drop a Java bridge named Cocoa back in 2005.
Apple changed their application development guidelines to state they will not accept any applications that are based off of or include Java. This is probablly because the apps downloaded on the app store included with Lion will require the user to install Java themselves. And of course, while Flash and Java will no longer come pre-installed, the end-user is completely free to install these platforms on their own.
Even with Apple deprecating Flash and Java in their OS, you can still acquire and use them. For Flash and Java on your Apple computers, you can still install the software yourself. Also, to use Flash on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPhone, all you need is to jailbreak them and install the program Frash.
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