Originally Posted by
ScottC
Video is always going to be an issue, especially when the source video file was not encoded to run on a mobile device. If you find a Flash applet with 1024x video, there is no phone that'll run that smoothly. But video in lower resolutions plays fine. If the expectations were that Flash would run just like on your quad core desktop running Windows 7, then yes - flash will disappoint you. But I don't think anyone in their right mind can expect a smartphone CPU to power desktop grade flash apps.
This is what I have submised from everything I have read about the experience. If you have content that is formatted for the phone, flash works just as advertised. This is true on any device. A four-year-old laptop would struggle to deliver perfect 1080p videos -- trust me I own one. Even new netbooks are in the same realm.
The problem here becomes, when it comes to iPhones/iPads, Jobs/Apple went the way of saying if you are going to have to recode everything again for mobile devices, do it in HTML 5 so that it is an entirely native experience and an open standard. I think more and more people are opening their eyes to this as they realize that it would be impossible to have a single perfect solution, flash or not, for the website they want to deliver to all users.