I would hold off to make flash an issue of Apple versus Adobe.

Concentrating on flash I would like to be able to come by without flash. Very often flash is unnecessary and annoying. I used to run flash-block in my browser to get rid of annoying animations, but way too often the site I was visiting would not function correctly any more. Many flash developers went over board - look at the silly intro screens at some websites where you have to get through to finally come to the content.

Technically I cannot contribute too much regarding flash, it must have some advantages otherwise youtube and other video sites would not use it.

If there are comparable open alternatives, please let's get rid of flash and use the open standards. I won't shed tears.

On the other hand I do not believe one minute that Apple disses flash because Steve Jobs prefers open standards.