Your entry adds nothing new, however given that you bring it up, I have to remark on how shocking it is that seemingly intelligent people can rationalize such intense hypocrisy.
If Flash is a no go because of HTML5, why does the iPhone app market exist?
I think Apple's behavior towards Adobe (and by extension the end-users) has been pretty piss poor. Jobs' pretend "rationalizations" are also rather poor.
However, I agree with this blog post. Flash is going the way of the past, HTML5 is the wave of the future. Adobe doesn't make money on flash players but does on content creation applications. It makes sense (and if Adobe's demonstration of targeting HTML5 for output is a demonstration it does to them also) to build HTML5 content creation tools. Adobe is the best at making content creation tools, they should do this.
This is more about a debate for the web, rather than the iPhone app market. Adobe makes tools that empower web developers. To really empower the next generation of web apps, they should focus on HTML5 rather than flash. As far as the iPhone goes: Things like appcelerator have been ok'd by apple. If Adobe bought a company like them and used that as an easier way to produce iPhone apps through CS6(?) it would be fine.
The no-Flash in the browser on the iPhone/iPad/whatever is entirely and absolutely Apple's choice, and no one can make that choice for them. They can argue benefits/detriments, but no one can make Apple pollute their platform against their will.
That is debate number 1.
The debate now has NOTHING to do with the web (and it's honestly quite ludicrous to claim that it does), but instead is Apple deciding to rewrite the rules of the app market just to exclude certain manners of developing software.
Using the web to blanket that argument as well is, quite honestly, offensive propaganda.
If Steve said "We're implementing new quality rules to ascertain the quality of apps by a panel of testers, and we're demanding that all apps use features {X} {Y} and {Z}", that would be one thing. That isn't what they did. Instead they said "Due to the fact that a lot of very gullible, very silly people will accept out ridiculously inaccurate correlation, we're blanket eliminating a broad realm of technology choices just to thwart a competitor".
Unless you work for Apple you should not be embracing that. It is a grievous offense to intelligence.
If Flash is a no go because of HTML5, why does the iPhone app market exist?