iPhone, Flash and Android.
I hate Flash. I wish I never had to use it. But there are times when I want it on my cell phone.
Half the restaurants in Argentina with websites use Flash. They do this probably because they are business people who are focused on running a restaurant, and not on creating websites. They get bad advice from somebody because they don't understand technology, and then end up with a crappy website. At the end of the day, I don't care - I don't go to restaurants because their website was done in HTML 5 - I go because I'm interested in their food.
On several occasions I've tried looking up the phone number or address of restaurants on my phone, and gotten nowhere because my phone doesn't support Flash.
This is why I find the whole debate about Flash on iPhone and Android annoying and absurd. Apple blocks Flash on the iPhone, and people react as if their loss of freedom to decide what software to use on their phone is a somehow a gain for them. Keep this in mind - it isn't that Apple doesn't support Flash on the iPhone because it sucks. That would be a sound technical decision. Rather, Apple is blocking Flash on the iPhone; so you don't have the freedom to install a crappy Flash VM on your iPhone even if you want to. This was a pure business decision, and your experience as a user did not factor into it.
For me, this is a loss because as horrible as Flash is, I would find it quite useful from time to time. And please, don't tell me about how great it will be to put pressure on Adobe to improve Flash, or how HTML 5 is going to make Flash go away. I would LOVE to see that happen, but here in Argentina things move much more slowly and I know I'm stuck with having to access tons of crappy Flash websites for the indefinite future. This is why I'm going to stick with Android for the time being. It's not perfect, but for now it's easily the lesser of two evils.
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