You know I find that it is incredibly useful to use cross platform tools or something like Appcelerator to test a proof of concept in the marketplace, but in th

You know I find that it is incredibly useful to use cross platform tools or something like Appcelerator to test a proof of concept in the marketplace, but in the long haul, it is a tradeoff and if you want certain features to work right, you have to either be content waiting for the 3rd party platform to support them, or you need to go native. In general, there is nothing wrong with the strategy of build a basic v 1.0 proof of concept to see if it connects with a market and then rebuild it on a native codebase. On the other hand, if you are a good enough developer, you can probably skip this step and just start native, but that certainly isn't the case for everybody. Looking at Flash in this prism of being a cheap prototyping tool is a reasonable way to look at things. Looking at it as a be-all-end-all platform is a bit foolish, but most reasonable people outside of Adobe aren't that foolish.