[Zak]

Since any discussion of the merits of iOS tends to involve a lot of biases, I'll state mine up front: I don't like the closed, controlled ecosystem. For that reason, I will likely prefer Android for the foreseeable future.

I have yet to try Flash on Android 2.2, but from everything I've heard, it isn't quite "software that works", and closed betas for iOS weren't either. The mismatch between touchscreens and a lot of existing flash content using hover for input is well known. There was a post to HN yesterday reporting that some video content had unusably bad performance, and Flash having a greater impact on battery life than video playback by other means is pretty well established.

As a user, I'd rather have a buggy flash implementation providing a poor user experience than be unable to access Flash content at all, but over the long term, I won't be sad to see Flash go. It's buggy and slow, especially on anything that isn't x86 or Windows. Even on the desktop, Flash just isn't "software that works"