Sticking with Flash
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^ good points. however, i think it's important to remember who is actually challenging the relevancy of flash these days. it's really two different parties:
1) Steve Jobs/Apple: their intentions are pretty clear for the most part as to why they want to avoid the technology on their mobile devices, whether their arguments hold any water or not. It's still very much a part of their OS X-basd Safari, however, and will remain that way.
2) Web Developers. And not just any web developers; front end developers. Particularly the ones who got burned by Adobe when they went OO on everyone in as3. Also those who favor the tools (ajax, jquery, javascript, etc) they already know and understand and don't want to have to learn a new and more complicated technology.
i'm generalizing, of course. there are other parties who perhaps dislike the techology, maybe a few end users who's browsers crashed because of a badly written as3 code. also, the open source community, etc. but these voices have little effect to the outcome of the technology in the big picture, i think.
having said all that, i do think the relevance of flash *could* shift with the advent of html5 particularly within the context of video and ads. however, considering the fact that the technology has been around since 2004, it's taking a considerable amount of time to get enough momentum to rally all browser developers to commit to these standards and as a result, IE has barely any support for html5 even using excanvas, and even firefox has problems running some of the popular html5 demos and games. i think once the standard is finalized and everyone jumps on board, html5 will complement flash quite well and possibly (read: hopefully) reduce the need for the plug-in in some of those cases where it would be otherwise overkill.