Matt Alexander, writing for The Loop:

Simply put, Mobile Flash has been an excuse of a “feature” for platforms in the face of iOS.

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Having pushed Mobile Flash as such a key differentiator, they’re looking at dealing with a whole host of confused and misinformed consumers.

That assumes most consumers will hear this news (they won’t) and that Android tablet manufacturers will stop bundling Flash, even as it ages and doesn’t get updated beyond security fixes (they won’t). I think it will be a while before the Flash bullet-point is dropped from the spec list of most Android tablets.