> Without optimizing your applications, Flash or otherwise, they can perform badly on any platform this is 101 for any software developer. Don't the two paragr

> Without optimizing your applications, Flash or otherwise, they can perform badly on any platform this is 101 for any software developer. Don't the two paragraphs following that quote pretty much gut Adobe's standard pitch? That we need Flash on mobile devices so we can access content that already exists on the web? Their own evangelists are (rightly) recommending that anyone serious about a mobile product needs to design and test for those devices and that simply pointing a touch-based mobile at an flv designed for PCs with keyboards and mice is not going to work. But that being the case, why isn't the argument for Flash about its comparative advantages vs per-device apps, HTML5, etc? It's not as if there isn't a compelling and rational case to be made there.