This is lateral thinking. You're in the "All or Nothing" camp. The binary reasoning. The very thing that makes innovation impossible. In your world, YouTube, V

This is lateral thinking. You're in the "All or Nothing" camp. The binary reasoning. The very thing that makes innovation impossible. In your world, YouTube, Vimeo and experimental web development wouldn't exist. HTML5 video and audio is being implemented TODAY because Flash created that demand at it's current rate of absorbency. So it should die? Flash is a breeding ground for ideas. What if Flash introduced a new approach to video conferencing / VOIP and allowed developers to play with the experience among multiple audiences? We wait for the "standards" bodies to "aggressively" implement these advancements? Or watch all browsers attempt to implement features inconsistently and cause more pain circa 1998? Flash death = death of experimentation and innovation in RIA.