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AppleInsider said:

Citing pressure from HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly, Adobe has announced that it will end development and distribution of Flash Player at the end of 2020, and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to open formats.

Actually Apple was only moderately interested in open formats. Apple wanted developers to move to native apps distributed through Apple-controlled AppStore, instead of the multi-platform third party development tool capable of distributing apps through every website. In fact once Flash was wounded to death, also the HTML5 promotion slowed.

blastdoor said:

The more interesting question is -- how does TSMC's 10nm compare to Intel's 14nm? I haven't been able to find a clear answer to that question. 

In this table you can find an indirect comparison between TSMC and Intel technologies.

We could say that TSMC 7nm will be roughly equivalent to an Intel 10nm.

source: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/221532-tsmc-will-begin-10nm-production-this-year-claims-5nm-by-2020

"Despite massive buybacks, Apple still has a growing pile of cash"

DED, you should be honest with investors. The truth is that Apple net assets (cash and investments excluded debts) are basically flat since 3 years (not piling at all). You know that massive buybacks had beed funded with massive debts (billions of dollars in issued bonds).

The graph below shows that profits of the last three years have been basically destroyed by speculators exploiting sistematic buybacks.
So, AAPL is an extremely strong company, but as a stockholder, I would prefer to stop buybacks at all to avoid burning profits.