Flash is going to be available on all major smart phones by mid next year - except iPhone. Therefore allowing developers to deliver to most phones and desktop with a single code.
HTML5 will require a recode for every single platform and browser - quadrupling the development costs for businesses. The development time required to approach even a fraction of flash is also quadrupling business cost - for an inferior product.
HTML should just die. We do not need something developed in the 1960's dominating the modern rich media internet age - ridiculous.
Finally anyone who continues ( looking at you @ ahh so) to write things like this:
"having content developers bog down our machines with more sh!tty pop-up ads and useless animations that try to sell us crap that many out there seem to want to do without. " needs to realise that this is EXACTLY the intention of HTML5 - except they will be worse, without the benefit of optimisation, will fail across browsers, be without GPU support, and will be unstoppable - the web is heading to 2001 flash web intros via HTML5 - so stop writing illogical ignorant crap about animation and content as though HTML5 is not going to deliver animation and advertising content - retard.
Flash 10.1 is the most sophisticated video and peer to peer platform ever seen and all major media and entertainment houses will be adopting it as there absolute standard - best you all stop writing ignorant crap and find out why that is and what those features are - because HTML5 sure as **** does not compete with these.
Grow up.
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