The only thing that article convinced me of was that Flash is not a good solution for playing streaming video, because it has other priorities and must make con

The only thing that article convinced me of was that Flash is not a good solution for playing streaming video, because it has other priorities and must make concessions to those. But isn't that what the anti-flash crowd has been saying all along? Other video players may have an easier time providing good performance, but they still can get better performance. If Adobe is happy solving different problems they should accept that their customers who have a problem Adobe doesn't solve will be looking towards other solutions. There's also the sticky issue of vast performance differences between windows and OS X/linux on the same hardware, but even if we accept your thesis that this isn't really Adobe's fault, it doesn't excuse the poor performance.