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dMull, Flash is great for a lot more than "very specific" shit.
Don't forget that Flash is FAR more than just a format. It's an entire content creation system. It's an IDE. An animation tool. It's a package and environment firmly rooted in an entire industry.
Everyone is forgetting some major issues here. HTML5 is simply a standard. It has ZERO bearing on quality control or implementation.
Think of how much of a headache it is ensuring cross-compatibility in non Flash experiences. It's a nightmare already for developers. Now compound it with all of the "bells and whistles" that people are prematurely assigning to HTML5, and you've got a clusterfuck.
Playing embedded videos, for example, now falls upon the individual browsers to implement. Do you actually think Safari, Firefox, IE, Chrome (etc) are all going to use the exact same video-implementation method? Nope. They're all going to render video their own way - you know, the behind the scenes shit. HTML5 standard has nothing to do with a browser's internal ability to execute and render. Meanwhile, Flash for most intents and purposes, runs exactly the same no matter where its embedded. That's the beauty, and the point of it. No squabbling to create a basic tween animation that works exactly the same on 3 browsers.
HTML5, for all intents and purposes, hasn't even left the ground yet. Fuck, people are still bitching about IE6! And even when it does, rigth now there is zero industry-standard content creation software that will enable programmers, animators, designers, and hybrids to develop robust experiences as well as Flash does. It's going to take a LOT to move this shit forward.
MUCH more than an iPhone and iPad.
At 99% penetration, Flash is so far from dead that this debate becomes laughable.
Also, I'd just like to mention that anyone who thinks "annoying ads" will go by the wayside if Flash does -- you've got another thing coming. Try thinking this through. If HTML5 can 'replace' Flash, then it can fuck adspace up just as well. Read up on Canvas alone.
Changing toolsets & environments carries with it any of your current biases against Flash.