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"And yet these are acceptable by users, but a Flash game that depletes battery is not acceptable. Why is this the case?"

If you ask ordinary "users" they'd want everything, including Flash on every device and in the browser too. Then they'd complain that "the internet" is to slow to even appear even if the page "just has a few ads." In Apple's case, Jobs, not "users", decided what he cared more for.

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But this is simply pushing the question further up the food chain.

That is, the question becomes: Why did Jobs find it acceptable to have iOS games on the iPhone that kill the battery within an hour, but found it unacceptable to have Flash that kills the battery within an hour?