Goddamnit, why do people keep taking Adobe's statements at face value -- shipping versions of Flash on Windows aren't hardware accelerated either! The Windows

Goddamnit, why do people keep taking Adobe's statements at face value -- shipping versions of Flash on Windows aren't hardware accelerated either! The Windows Flash 10.1 plugin has been in public beta for less than 6 months, and only accelerates video decoding on minority hardware. A few percent of their install base has it, tops. Flash on Windows has decoded H.264 video at unaccelerated libavcodec speeds just fine without it going back to Flash 9 in 2007, and H.263 going back to Flash 6 in 2002. Neither of those codecs works nearly as well on OS X or Linux. They're pushing this angle because it makes them out to be the heroes -- see the passive-aggressive spiel you get when you visit the Flash page on an iPhone -- they'd love to frame everything as "if only Apple would let us". Unfortunately it's not true in the slightest.