Bye Flash :(
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there are phones/tablets coming out in next 2 months that will have dual core ARM processors and they will be the same price as current crop. It's called progress.
In any case.. this will be irrelevant because Adobe is finally rewriting parts of Flash Player to be fully GPU accelerated and you can run heavy 3d stuff too..
The reason we didn't see this done sooner because we didn't really have the need for low performance, high battery devices and Flash running on them.. nothing about them was smart, browsers were awful etc..Adobe/Macromedia was improving player's performance for desktops but there wasn't that much rush because the desktop machines were growing in speed insanely with multiple cores etc. They still did improve it, but it wasn't done all GPU because there was really no need for it.. Nobody really cared about Apple and Steve Jobs' closed up platforms and the reason they didn't want to give access to certain APIs that could have made Flash Player work just as well as on PC.
Now.. in the last year and a half the huge demand has expanded and now there is need for GPu accelerated Flash runtime..and what do you know.. by next year, we will have it..
Flash Player 10.1 already now (even not GPU accelerated) runs fantastic.. It's so much better than Flash 10.