I specifically asked this in a tweet if there would be some way to install it if it doesn't come with it. They answered that it is not supported for mobile. Stock, Dolphin and Firefox all play flash on my HTC One. When I had a LG G2x it played flash. My N9 played flash. The web is still using flash. On my HTC One It is a separate install in the play store if i am remembering correctly and it gets enabled in the settings of each browser and I am about to install kitkat in Jan so I'm way past gingerbread and so I don't know what you are referring too when you talk about a work around, I've never had to do such a thing.

Furthermore if we are changing our user agent to an IOS browser so that we can get proper video and interaction aren't we supporting a closed source competitor by encouraging a web designed towards a closed source OS?

I got pretty angry about this on talk.maemo.org and blew up about it (I was drinking vodka at the time sorry talk.maemo I regretted posting in anger the next day).

The simple fact is Android is dominating the market and it plays flash. Practically 90+% of the items in my blinkfeed is going to be a link to a site with a flash video or a flash interaction somehow.
Why should I constantly be frustrated because OMG another flash website? Or be scared to click a link?

Do you know what it's like to try to get something done on break time or lunch time on a poor connection and you find out you can't because guess what your browser doesn't have flash? And then you go looking for an app to get around it and download it from the store and then try to log in and it sends you through hoops and email verification or log in through facebook and you can't even get done what you needed to by the time the bell rings.
You want to go grab a dev by the neck and scream in his face "your browser doesn't work. I need to get stuff done!" And then you want to do the same to the carrier and his slow connection. And guess what, neither will get you anywhere, you are powerless.

This is where my anger comes from, T-mobile says hey "contact our engineers" and I'm like, "Why is it my responsibility to contact your engineers because your coverage map is fraudulent and I walked it and mapped out the borders of where the signal becomes crap and proved it to you. Are you going to pay me? What am I one of your employees?"

And then you go to the devs and they're like, "hey sorry flash is not supported." essentially telling you we don't care about you but we pretended your phone would be a tool you could use. This is what I see is going to happen with a jolla phone from the information I have so far.

Elop killing support for the N9 plus the slow hardware and slow slow firefox on N9 had me super frustrated and angry at tmobile in poor coverage areas and at Elop for killing support. I just couldn't get anything done on my phone at work or home. It was like trying to swim through molasses.

Now I have the HTC One and I'm still getting frustrated at tmobiles false coverage map where my home and work is. But it is much better than with the N9. I should grab my N9 and video me trying to get stuff done at lunch time on my One and then post it to youtube. Maybe then I'll get some action.

i have first hand experience with flex/flash development for a living and had to cope with endless security and performance issues for some years. I honestly can say that i'd like to see adobe go bankrupt...

yeah, but Microsoft (Evil Empire TM) does not have/support flash on their Phones and Tablets because they want to force developers and users to use silverlight.

its their usual strategy.

Anyway, flash/flex is not EOL. IMO its a good thing that the proprietary license will run out and flash/flex will be fully OS in the future. Good things may happen or not.