@denisrs
That's just silly. For one, most video on Flash these days is H.264. So on Android, it accelerates just like any other H.264 video... no battery loss. It doesn't on the iPhone, and it didn't on the Mac until very recently, simply because Apple didn't have open video acceleration APIs. Not Adobe's fault.. as witnessed by the fact that Flash Video is fast and reliable on the PC.
Normal flash code isn't going to be much different in performance than other means of programming.
Apple really stacked the deck by building an OS that inherently made video on non-Apple programs slow, then they turned around and blamed the applications.
As for surfing and video, I'm holding out on tablet devices until the nVidia Tegra2 units ship this summer. We should see a good dozen, with things like USB and HDMI output. And, oh-by-the-way, these are 2.5x faster than the iPad on CPU, faster still on GPU, and they get 16 hours playing full HD H.264 video. iPad is going to feel very, very old, very, very soon.
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